[Does mastoiditis still exist? (author's transl)].
The authors report 382 cases of mastoidectomy verified by histological examination and draw certain conclusions: There were 5 errors in diagnosis, i.e. 1.3 per cent. Most cases were aged between 4 and 12 months. Below the age of two years it was usually bilateral, exceptionally so after the age of two years. Diagnosis was mainly clinical and based on the following axiom: "All infants with acute otitis who, in spite of proper medical treatment, have at the end of one month of a weight curve either stationary or falling, and eardrums not strictly normal, have mastoiditis". This therefore implies close and prolonged supervision by the same observer throughout the period antibiotic treatment and at least one week after stopping the latter. The treatment is still mastoidectomy and not antrotomy but one may hope with more accurate diagnosis that new methods of treatment may be developed to the extent where immediate and long term supervision of the child may be ensured.
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008416:Mastoid / Q000601:surgery; D008417:Mastoiditis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D010033:Otitis Media / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy; D013997:Time Factors
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents
Les mastoïdites existent-elles encore?