Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) is a common childhood infectious disease in developing countries. It may be associated with various life threatening intra-cranial or extra-cranial complications. We report a 10 year-male child with a rare combination of right sided unsafe CSOM, mastoiditis, Bezold abscess, sigmoid and transverse sinus thrombosis, and bilateral abducens nerve palsy and ...

Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) is still the most common ear disease in developing countries. Mucosal-type CSOM is more common than squamous-type CSOM. Antibiotics in the treatment of otitis media have significantly decreased the incidence of complications; however, the rate of complication of squamous-type CSOM is still significant in southeast Asia.1 A common complication is acute mas...

Introduction Suppurative otitis media is still the most common ear disease in developing countries. Otogenic complications of this disease have decreased considerably because of the advent of antibiotics, and few rare complications have been encountered. Objective To report a case of a patient with scapular abscess and lumber cellulitis that had progressed from Bezold abscess as a complication ...

Acute otitis media complications are relative rare since the introduction of antibiotics. Still many controversies exist on the diagnosis and treatment of some of them. In this report we describe a pediatric case of upper cervical abscess (bezold abscess), sigmoid sinus thrombosis and occipital osteomyelitis following mastoiditis, presenting with persistent fever and otorrhea. The patient respo...

Chronic otitis media (COM) is a common clinical entity, but the incidence of COM complications has declined recently due to broad use of antibiotics. Independent of this, these complications are still a significant challenge in otorhinolaryngology practice because of high morbidity and mortality rates. The most common etiologic diagnosis was cholesteatomatous COM. Simultaneous coexistence of co...

OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of complications in patients suffering from chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM). st th METHODS: This study was done in Saidu Sharif Teaching Hospital from 1 March 2010 to 30 June 2013. In this prospective studies 53 patients of Chronic suppurative otitis media were selected. RESULTS: In our study 31(58.4%) male and 22 (41.5%) were female. Age distributi...

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate whether or not cardiovagal excitatory and sympatho-inhibitory pathways of the Bezold-Jarisch reflex at the NTS level were mediated by NMDA receptors. The Bezold-Jarisch reflex was activated by intravenous (i.v.) injection of serotonin in conscious rats before and after microinjection of phosphonovaleric acid (AP-5) a selective NMDA antagonist, in...