Pott's puffy tumour in a pre-adolescent child: the youngest reported in the post-antibiotic era.
Pott's puffy tumour is a subperisosteal abscess associated with a cranial osteomyelitis. A rare consequence of trauma or frontal sinusitis, it is often an indicator of intracranial complications. At 3 years of age, the patient described is the youngest reported with this condition. The occurrence of such pathology in pre-adolescent children is very rare and this case is one of three reported in the English literature in the post-antibiotic era.
Gupta
Michael
M
Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Radiology, The Stollery Children's Hospital, Edmonton, Alta., Canada T6G 2B7.
El-Hakim
Hamdy
H
Bhargava
Ravi
R
Burgava
Ravi
R
Mehta
Vivek
V
D000038:Abscess / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005546:Forehead / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D005624:Frontal Bone / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D015522:Frontal Sinusitis / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010019:Osteomyelitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D011859:Radiography; D012535:Scalp / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology