Sino- and otogenic intracranial complications: 2 cases reports

Ireneusz Bielecki, Łukasz Zygan, Ewa Kluczewska*¹, Ryszard Tomaszewski, Elwira Nowak-Adamska¹

Summary
In opposite to adults, in children intracranial complications occur mainly in acute sinusitis and acute suppurative otitis media.
Infection resulting from an inflammatory process or injury, may spread inwards the skull across a damaged bone, across a natural dehiscence in bone tissue, and also along blood-vessels in an intact bone.
The authors present two cases of sinogenic and otogenic intracranial complications.
An early diagnosis of intracranial complications by means of CT scan, and the surgical removal of the infection foci from the sinus or ear may significantly contribute to a good prognosis.
Epidemiological data are also analysed and literature reports are reviewed.

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