Despite the significant progress achieved in era of antibioticotherapy, the rate of suppurative complications of chronic otitis media (COM) remains alarming, and there is a growing evidence of unusual causative bacteria. We present a case of post-mastoidectomy wound infection caused by Enterococcus Foecalis that resulted in brain abscess and was resolved by means of a craniotomy with skull base...

WE are now at a most exciting period in the history of otology-you might even call it a renaissance. Certainly the basic structure of the subject is undergoing vast changes, and to keep in the front line of these changes and the impact they make is a challenge in itself. Even the theories about the pathogenesis of chronic suppurative otitis media, unchallenged for one hundred years, are being c...

Chronic mastoiditis and subperiosteal abscess are rarely seen nowadays in most countries. Thirty-four cases of mastoiditis were reviewed to find out the prevalence of chronic mastoiditis in the east coast of Malaysia. Twenty (58.82%) of these cases were a sequelae of chronic suppurative otitis media with cholesteatoma. All the patients with chronic mastoiditis were more than six years old. Fort...