title: [Pott's puffy tumor - severe course of a sinusitis].
abstract: The disease pattern <<Pott's puffy tumour>> describes a local frontal-bone osteomyelitis that arises from an external infection with consecutive sub-periostal expansion. Symptoms may develop slowly or not at all with a mostly indolent protuberance on the patient's forehead. Symptomatic illness often indicates secondary morbidities. Here, we present a complicated case with intracranial dissemination.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Neurochirurgie, Kantonsspital St. Gallen.
authors.forename: M N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Stienen
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hermann
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Breuer
authors.forename: O P
authors.initials: OP
authors.lastname: Gautschi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000209:etiology; D001929:Brain Edema / Q000209:etiology; D003399:Craniotomy; D004630:Emergencies; D013354:Empyema, Subdural / Q000209:etiology; D005624:Frontal Bone / Q000601:surgery; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008590:Meningoencephalitis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D010019:Osteomyelitis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012852:Sinusitis / Q000150:complications*; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents