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      Intratemporal complications of acute otitis media in infants and children.

      Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
      Acute Disease, Child, Child, Preschool, Facial Paralysis, etiology, therapy, Female, Humans, Infant, Inflammation, Labyrinthitis, Male, Mastoiditis, Otitis Media, complications, Petrous Bone, pathology, Retrospective Studies

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          We reviewed our experience with 100 children admitted to Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh between 1980 and 1995 with an intratemporal complication of acute otitis media. Seventy-two patients were treated for acute mastoiditis. Of these 72 children, 54 (75.0%) were treated conservatively with broad-spectrum intravenous antibiotics and myringotomy. Eighteen (25.0%) required mastoidectomy for treatment of a subperiosteal or Bezold's abscess or cholesteatoma, or because of poor response to conservative therapy. Twenty-two children presented with facial paralysis, complete in 5 (22.7%) and incomplete in 17 (77.3%). Eighteen (81.8%) were treated conservatively, but four required mastoid surgery. Nineteen patients had adequate follow-up; of these, 15 recovered normal facial function but 4 were left with partial paralysis. Three patients presented with serous labyrinthitis and recovered completely with conservative therapy. Of the two patients who presented with suppurative labyrinthitis, one was treated conservatively, but the other required tympanomastoidectomy with cochleotomy; both patients had permanent, profound sensorineural hearing loss in the affected ear. Four patients presented with acute petrositis, and in all four it resolved with mastoidectomy. In the antibiotic era, intratemporal complications of acute otitis media still occur in otherwise healthy children, often after inadequate treatment of acute otitis media.

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