Decisions regarding intracranial complications from acute mastoiditis in children

Current Opinion in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 478-485

  Osborn, Alexander J ^a   Blaser, Susan ^a   Papsin, Blake C ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

lateral sinus thrombosis; mastoidectomy; PCV7; Streptococcus

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; METRONIDAZOLE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTICOAGULATION; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN PSEUDOTUMOR; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; DIPLOPIA; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MASTOIDECTOMY; MASTOIDITIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENINGITIS; MIXED HEARING LOSS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OTALGIA; OTORRHEA; PARALYSIS; PHOTOPHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGMOID SINUS THROMBOSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN ABSCESS; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MASTOIDITIS; MENINGITIS; SINUS THROMBOSIS, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 81155148321     PISSN: 10689508     EISSN: 15316998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOO.0b013e32834b0d92     Document Type: Review

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