Skull base osteomyelitis (SBO) is a life-threatening condition in patients with underlying comorbidities. Ear infections may spread through normal skull base fissures in this group of patients. However, its diagnosis is frequently delayed due to the unspecific clinical findings at onset, such as headache, with diverse cranial neuropathies later as the disease progresses. We present the case of a patient with otogenic skull base osteomyelitis complicated with retropharyngeal extension, treated with surgical drainage and broadspectrum antibiotics directed toward extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli, with recurrence of the infection three months later. With this case study, we aim to stress the importance of antimicrobial resistance and how it can preclude an otherwise favorable prognosis.
BACKGROUND. Otosclerosis is a primary disease of the human otic capsule and stapes stage, being a frequent cause of conductive hearing loss in our country. The surgical treatment of choice is stapes surgery and prosthesis placement, performed in a conventional way, with a surgical microscope, for 30 years in our hospital. Recently, the option of performing stapes surgery endoscopically was introduced in our centre. OBJECTIVE. To evaluate the results in stapes surgery for otosclerosis between the conventional microscopic versus endoscopic procedure. MATERIAL AND METHODS. An observational, analytical and retrospective study on patients undergoing stapes surgery with microscopic and endoscopic technique was conducted. Data such as age, sex, state of origin, affected ear, as well as the technique used, duration of surgical intervention, hearing gain and postsurgical complications were taken. Data were taken from the records of patients admitted to the hospital. Descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney U and Pearson’s Ji2, were used, considering a value of p≤ 0.05 as significant. RESULTS. No significant differences were found in surgical time or postoperative hearing between the two surgical techniques. The female sex was the most intervened. There was no significant difference between the post-surgical complications of both groups. CONCLUSION. Both procedures appear to be effective, with similar risks and postoperative results for the surgical treatment of otosclerosis.
Introducción: Los pólipos linfangiomatosos de las amígdalas palatinas son lesiones benignas raras. Esta entidad se origina en el estroma linfoide mezclándose con el parénquima, siendo diferente a la hiperplasia papilar y representa aproximadamente el 1,9% de las neoplasias de amígdalas. Objetivo: Presentar un caso clínico y una búsqueda sistemática de los casos pediátricos publicados en la literatura. Reporte de caso: se ha realizado una revisión sistemática siguiendo las pautas PRISMA de los reportes en PubMed, Elsevier, Google Académico de 2010 a 2021. Se localizaron 18 artículos en los que se encontró 8 mujeres y 10 hombres, la edad promedio fue de 14 años, en 15 las lesiones eran unilaterales. Todos los casos reportaron en los hallazgos histopatológicos la presencia de vasos linfáticos. Conclusión: Existe variabilidad entre la edad con distribución similar entre sexos; al ser una entidad infrecuente hay heterogeneidad en su denominación.
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