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Infectious disease rounds: Pott's puffy tumor with intracranial complications
E Mammen-Prasad1, J L Murillo, J A Titelbaum
1Division of Infectious Disease, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, NJ 07112.
New Jersey Medicine : the Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey
|July 1, 1992
Abstract:
Pott's puffy tumor, a complication of frontal sinusitis, frequently is associated with intracranial infection. Early diagnosis can be obtained by computed tomography. Treatment should include surgical drainage and antibiotic therapy directed against mixed aerobic and anaerobic pathogens.