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JOSEPH J. LITTELL, M.D.

AMA Arch Otolaryngol. 1955;62(6):636-637.

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THE INTRACRANIAL complications of mastoiditis have become a comparative rarity since the advent of the antimicrobials. Those of us who have seen a large ward in the Allegemeine Krankenhaus filled with patients with these complications, including several brain abscess cases, can testify to it. This change was well developed in a symposium on the subject at the Western Section of the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society, Inc., in January, 1955, and was discussed by a panel of neurologists, neurosurgeons, and otologists. They failed, however, to touch on what has long been a moot question—the proper surgical approach to brain abscess of otitic origin.

It is well known that the proportion of brain abscesses secondary to mastoiditis is very high. Stuart and associates¹ in an excellent review of 125 cases report a large proportion to be found as complications of chronic middle-ear infections as against acute ones (3% of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Santa Rosa, Calif.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication June 13, 1955.

Coates, personal communication to the author.

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