Postauricular Subperiosteal and Bezold's Abscesses Complicating Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media with Cholesteatoma.
- Author:
Gyeong Min MIN
1
;
Sung Bum HONG
;
Gun PARK
;
In Won CHANG
Author Information
1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Kwangju Veterans Hospital, Kwangju, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Postauricular subperiosteal abscess;
Bezold's abscess;
Cholesteatoma
- MeSH:
Abscess*;
Adult;
Anti-Bacterial Agents;
Child;
Cholesteatoma*;
Female;
Humans;
Mastoid;
Mastoiditis;
Otitis Media;
Otitis Media, Suppurative*
- From:Korean Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
1997;40(12):1833-1838
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Subperiosteal abscess of the mastoid region and Bezold's abscesses have become very rare since introduction of antibiotics. Subpriosteal abscess is usually seen in children who have acute mastoiditis. Its occurrence in adults or in associated with chronic otitis media is even more unusual. Bezold's abscess, a complication of acute otitis media in adult who has well pneumatized air cells in the tip of the mastoid, is also rarely seen in the current era of antibiotics. This paper reports a case of postauricular subperiosteal and Bezold's abscess complicating chronic suppurative otitis media with cholesteatoma in a 37-year old woman with review of literatures.
