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Revista Cubana de Pediatría

Print version ISSN 0034-7531On-line version ISSN 1561-3119

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HERNANDEZ CORDERO, María del Carmen; QUINTERO NOA, Julianis Loraine; VALLS PEREZ, Orlando  and  ALVAREZ LAM, Ileana. Importance of the clinico-imaging evaluation in the diagnosis of cholesteatoma: Report of two cases. Rev Cubana Pediatr [online]. 2008, vol.80, n.1. ISSN 0034-7531.

Among the chronic infectious affections of the middle ear, the cholesteatomatous otitis media is the inflammatory pathology causing a higher number of complications, both in the adult and the child. Two patients that were surgically treated at the otorrhynolaryngology service of "William Soler" Pediatric Hospital from 2004 to 2005 because of rare complications of this disease (Bezold's abscess, thrombophlebitis of the lateral sinus, epidural abscess, labyrinthic fístula and facial paralysis) were presented. It was stressed the importance of clinical suspicion of cholesteatoma and the scientific impact of the simple and contrast computerized tomography of the temporal bone cranius for the preoperative diagnosis of complicated cholesteatoma in children, which contributes with the first priority of otological surgery: a safe ear without relapses.

Keywords : Chronic otitis media; cholesteatoma; otomicroscopy; ear tomography.

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