Rationale:Acute otitis media is a common disease in early childhood,and is usually caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae(S.pneumoniae).Acute mastoiditis is a complication of acute otitis media and can involve not only th...
Mastoiditis is a common complication of acute otitis media. It is common in younger age compared to adulthood. Mastoiditis occurs when an otitis media infection spread directly to involve the bone of mastoid air cell ...
Introduction: Acute mastoiditis is the most common complication of Acute Otitis Media (AOM) and it’s the cause of serious morbidity. There is no standard universally agreed-upon management approach to acute mastoidit...
Background:Tuberculosis(TB)of the middle ear cleft(MEC)is a rare extra-pulmonary manifestation.Signs and symptoms of tuberculous otitis media are indistinguishable from that of non-tuberculous otitis media making earl...
Otitis media is common in children and Fusobacterium species are an emerging causative pathogen.These species have virulence factors which increase the risk of complicated otitis media.We discuss a case of F.necrophor...
Background:There are some risk factors being more vulnerable to Lemierre's syndrome such as a hypercoagulable state.Methods:We report a rare case of Lemierre's syndrome with ethmoid and maxillary sinusitis,bilateral m...