title: [Pathological changes of the pyramidal eminence in chronic suppurative otitis media].
abstract: Temporal bones of patients with chronic suppurative otitis media were used for evaluation of possibility of penetration of the infection from the cavum tympani into the facial nerve via the pyramidal eminence. The infection can spread to the facial nerve in two ways: via the natural opening on the pyramidal eminence through which tendon of the musculus stapedius is passing, without bone lesions of the eminence and via the sites of bone destruction on the eminence.
authors.affiliation: Clinique d'O.R.L. et de chirurgie maxillo-faciale du Centre Clinique Universitaire, Belgrade, Yougoslavie.
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authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Djeric
mesh_terms: D005158:Facial Paralysis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D010035:Otitis Media, Suppurative / Q000150:complications*; D010579:Petrous Bone / Q000473:pathology*
vernacular_title: Les changements pathologiques de l'éminence pyramidale en cas d'otite chronique suppurée.