title: [Extracranial and intracranial complications of otitis media (with analysis of 60 cases)].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the clinical feature of extracranial and intracranial complications caused by suppurative otitis media.
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective study of 60 patients with extracranial and intracranial complications caused by suppurative otitis media between March of 1993 and August of 2002 was done.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Forty-nine of the 60 patients had one complication and the other 11 patients had two or more complications. Among them, 13 had lesion of sigmoid sinus, 2 had extradural abscess, 4 had otogenic meningitis, 3 had otogenic brain abscess, 20 had suppurative labyrinthitis, 18 had periauricular abscess, 2 had Bezold abscess and 12 had facial paralysis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The incidence of the complications has been low down these years, and we can hardly find some serious complications. The most reliable method to diagnosis and treat the complications is surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Weijia
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kong
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000209:etiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004427:Ear Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D020802:Epidural Abscess / Q000209:etiology; D005158:Facial Paralysis / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007762:Labyrinthitis / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D016920:Meningitis, Bacterial / Q000209:etiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D010035:Otitis Media, Suppurative / Q000150:complications*; D012189:Retrospective Studies