Pott's puffy tumor: A rare complication of acute otitis media in child: A case report
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY |
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| Citation | |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijporl.2015.06.029 |
| Field | ORL, ophthalmology, stomatology |
| Keywords | Pott's puffy tumor; Acute otitis media; Childhood |
| Description | To describe a rare case of Potts' puffy tumor (PPT) in the zygomatic area, which developed as a complication of acute otitis media in a 6-year-old child. To date, only one case of PPT has been described in the literature as a complication of latent mastoiditis in an adult, and one case of PPT as a complication of acute mastoiditis in a 10-year-old child. Urgent surgical intervention, including evacuation of the purulent lesion, removal of inflamed soft tissue and osteolysis of the involved bone, and antromastoidectomy, intravenous treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics, including G+, G-, anaerobes and fungi, and local therapy. |
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