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Three 'silent' mastoid abscesses
M H Wickham1, S S Marven, A A Narula
1Department of Otolaryngology, Leicester Royal Infirmary.
The British Journal of Clinical Practice
|June 1, 1990
Abstract:
Acute mastoiditis with abscess formation is uncommon, its incidence being modified by modern antibiotic usage for acute suppurative otitis media (ASOM). It tends to occur in young children who have no previous history of ear disease. The diagnosis is a clinical one, and treatment requires hospital admission and some form of surgical drainage procedure, in order to prevent intracranial complications, eg, meningitis and intracerebral abscess.