title: [Endocranial complications in otitis media: what you need to remember].
abstract: Thanks to the potency of antibiotics, life-threatening complications of otitis media are rare. In many cases, however, the symptomatology is veiled, and the course of the disease tends to be protracted. Secondary symptoms may preponderate and often mask those associated with the ear itself. If a case of otitis media fails to clear up, or mastoiditis develops, or sensorineural deafness, vertigo, headaches, seizures, or meningism occur, the possibility of an otogenous complication must immediately be considered and the patient submitted to diagnostic imaging without delay, so as to ensure early surgical treatment of a possible lesion in the ear.
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik fŭr HNO-Heilkunde Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus der Technischen Universität Dresden.
authors.forename: E G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Wüstenberg
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Knothe
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kittner
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zahnert
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002648:Child; D003638:Deafness / Q000209:etiology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004660:Encephalitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D020227:Lateral Sinus Thrombosis / Q000150:complications; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008417:Mastoiditis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D008580:Meningism / Q000209:etiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010033:Otitis Media / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents