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Stapedectomy and fatal meningitis. A human temporal bone study.

Abstract
Temporal bone histopathology is reported on a case of acute suppurative otitis media, acute suppurative labyrinthitis, and meningitis with death of the patient 20 days after stapes surgery. Purulent exudate invaded the vestibule by the oval window through a displaced footplate. The main pathway of infection to the menings was extension along the branches of the vesticular nerve to the internal auditory meatus and to the subarachnoid space.
AuthorsJ T Benitez
JournalORL; journal for oto-rhino-laryngology and its related specialties (ORL J Otorhinolaryngol Relat Spec) Vol. 39 Issue 2 Pg. 94-100 ( 1977) ISSN: 0301-1569 [Print] Switzerland
PMID561934 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)
Topics
  • Aged
  • Ear, Inner (pathology)
  • Ear, Middle (pathology)
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Meningitis, Haemophilus (etiology)
  • Prostheses and Implants
  • Stapes Surgery
  • Surgical Wound Infection (complications, pathology)

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