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Pott's puffy tumor: A rare complication of acute otitis media in child: A case report

Authors

URÍK Milan MACHAČ Josef ŠLAPÁK Ivo HOŠNOVÁ Dagmar

Year of publication 2015
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijporl.2015.06.029
Field ORL, ophthalmology, stomatology
Keywords Pott's puffy tumor; Acute otitis media; Childhood
Description To describe a rare case of Potts' puffy tumor (PPT) in the zygomatic area, which developed as a complication of acute otitis media in a 6-year-old child. To date, only one case of PPT has been described in the literature as a complication of latent mastoiditis in an adult, and one case of PPT as a complication of acute mastoiditis in a 10-year-old child. Urgent surgical intervention, including evacuation of the purulent lesion, removal of inflamed soft tissue and osteolysis of the involved bone, and antromastoidectomy, intravenous treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics, including G+, G-, anaerobes and fungi, and local therapy.
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