title: Multiple cranial nerve palsies complicating tympanomastoiditis: case report.
abstract: Otitis media either acute or chronic, is not uncommon in childhood. Multiple cranial nerve palsies occuring as a complication of either form of otitis media is unusual. A case of a nine year old boy with chronic suppurative otitis media with associated mastoiditis complicated with ipsilateral multiple cranial nerve palsies is presented. A skull X-ray and MRI scan showed sclerotic mastoids. The outcome on antibiotic treatment was good.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, P.O. Box 19676, Nairobi, Kenya.
authors.forename: D P O
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Oyatsi
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002648:Child; D003389:Cranial Nerve Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008417:Mastoiditis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D010035:Otitis Media, Suppurative / Q000150:complications*; D011859:Radiography; D012886:Skull / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents