A Comprehensive Review of Skull Base Osteomyelitis: Diagnostic …
Skull base osteomyelitis (SBO) is a complex and fatal clinical entity that is often misdiagnosed for malignancy. SBO is commonly a direct complication of otogenic, sinogenic, odontogenic, and rhinogenic infections and can present as central, atypical, or pediatric clival SBO.
Diagnosis of Skull Base Osteomyelitis | RadioGraphics
2021年1月7日 · In this review, we describe the anatomy of the skull base, patient symptoms at clinical presentation, causes and routes of infection, imaging findings, complications, differential diagnosis, and treatment of SBO. The imaging findings will be explained with six sample cases from our hospital between 2015 and 2020.
Skull Base Osteomyelitis: A Comprehensive Imaging Review
2021年1月21日 · Atypical skull base osteomyelitis preferentially affects the central skull base and can be caused by bacterial or fungal infections. Clinically, typical skull base osteomyelitis presents with signs and symptoms of otitis externa or other temporal bone infection.
Skull base osteomyelitis: factors implicating clinical outcome
2019年3月6日 · Skull base osteomyelitis is a serious disease with a high risk of complications including neuroinfection. Typically, the inflammation of the skull base results from infection from neighboring tissues. In case of malignant otitis externa, inflammation disseminates from the external auditory canal.
Skull Base Osteomyelitis - Otolaryngologic Clinics of North …
2023年7月19日 · Skull base osteomyelitis (SBO) Malignant otitis externa (MOE) Diabetes mellitus. Key points. •. The hallmark presenting symptom of SBO is otalgia, typically described as a persistent and severe deep pain with nocturnal worsening. •. SBO is a chronic bone infection with high morbidity and mortality. •.
Skull Base Osteomyelitis - SpringerLink
2020年7月14日 · Definition: Skull base osteomyelitis is a potentially life-threatening disorder which is fortunately a relatively rare, although very aggressive, severe skull base infection most frequently found in older diabetics (or immune suppressed of any age) and can cause frequent fatalities in spite of vigorous antibiotic treatment .
Skull Base Osteomyelitis: Historical Perspective, Diagnosis and ...
SBO is a life-threatening disease that requires a high index of suspicion based on these patients complex underlying medical co-morbidities and clinician's acumen. Once a diagnosis is made, is it critical to communicate and work closely with other multidisciplinary teams (neuroradiology for …
Atypical Skull-Base Osteomyelitis: Comprehensive Review and
2023年4月28日 · Atypical skull-base osteomyelitis (ASBO) is a rare but fatal disease and usually involves infection of the ethmoid, sphenoid, occipital, or temporal bones that make up the skull base. Unlike typical SBO, which is usually the result of advanced necrotising external otitis (so-called otogenic), ASBO does not have an otogenic cause.
Current management of skull base osteomyelitis - PubMed
2021年10月1日 · Recent findings: Treatment-resistant otalgia or headache is suspicious of SBO. Pseudomonas aeruginosa remains the most common pathogen but clinicians are challenged with increasing rates of sterile or fungal cultures due to previously applied antibiotics/steroids.
Skull base osteomyelitis imaging : Current Opinion in ... - LWW
This review discusses the clinical presentation, pathophysiology and imaging appearances of SBO. The review further emphasizes the results of latest studies on imaging of SBO, and the role of different modalities in diagnosis and evaluation of disease course and treatment response.
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