Brain abscess secondary to otitis media
- 1 May 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Laryngology & Otology
- Vol. 98 (12) , 1185-1192
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022215100148261
Abstract
Otogenic brain abscess still occurs despite advances in antibiotics. The possible diagnosis should be disproved rather than ignored in any patient who presents with a discharging ear and who has any intracranial symptoms. Otogenic brain abscess carries a 47.2% risk of a fatal outcome and those patients who survive have a 95% risk of developing epilepsy.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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