title: [Otogenic cerebellar abscesses (in the light of 10-year observation materials at the ENT clinic at the Tashkent institute of continuing education of physicians)].
abstract: In 1989-1998 ENT specialists of the Tashkent Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education treated 109 patients with otogenic intracranial complications. 13 (11.9%) of them had cerebellar abscess. Clinical symptoms of the abscesses were obscure or absent. Head ache was the leading symptom. Other hypertensive symptoms presented with nausea, (n = 2), vomiting (n = 5), bradycardia (n = 7). Changes on the fundus of the eye were not registered in 6 patients. Defective coordination of movements, scanning speech were observed in 11 and 3 patients, respectively. Large-swinging, mixed horizontal nystagmus was truncal, in 11 patients it was directed to the side of the abscess, in 2 patients--in both directions. Symptoms of the secondary meningitis arose in 12 patients. The patients underwent surgical cleaning of the middle ear and opening cerebellar abscess under drug therapy. One patient died of purulent ventriculitis (lethality 7.6%). It is inferred that cerebellar abscesses often run with mild symptoms. This creates diagnostic difficulties.
authors.forename: T Sh
authors.initials: TSh
authors.lastname: Mamatova
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Rasulova
mesh_terms: D000038:Abscess / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D000328:Adult; D002526:Cerebellar Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010033:Otitis Media / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery; D010036:Otolaryngology / Q000193:education