Disease relevance of Mastoiditis

• Twenty-eight patients, 24 men and 4 women, aged between 17 and 72 years old, and suffering from chronic osteomyelitis (19), mastoiditis (5), or serious wound infections (4) were treated for an average of 35 days with netilmicin at doses of 2.4 to 6.9 mg/kg/day [1].
• During a 24-month period outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy, usually once daily i.m. ceftriaxone, was evaluated in 41 children with serious otolaryngologic infections (acute mastoiditis, complicated otitis media, severe external otitis and severe sinusitis with orbital or periorbital involvement) [2].
• We saw a 36-year-old woman with promyelocytic leukemia in remission who had the signs and symptoms of an acute coalescent mastoiditis [3].

High impact information on Mastoiditis

• A 6-year-old boy was admitted to the ENT Department with 4 weeks of ear pain, treated for AOM with cefuroxime axetyl and amoxicilline, with acute mastoiditis and subsequent abscess formation in zygomatic and preauricular region [4].
• Computed tomography (CT) scan revealed ipsilateral mastoiditis, prompting admission for intravenous antibiotic and steroid therapies [5].
• Children with acute mastoiditis with periosteitis are conventionally hospitalized for parenteral antibiotics and/or surgical treatment [6].
• Chronic mastoiditis mimicking recurrence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: report of a case [7].
• Even though mastoiditis as a complication of AOM is uncommon, its recognition is imperative to institute timely therapy [8].

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