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Malignant or necrotising otitis externa is a rare but potentially fatal disease. The classic presentation is one of severe, unremitting, throbbing otalgia, which may progress to osteomyelitis, especially in the elderly diabetic or immunocompromised patient. The case described is of a 72-year-old

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to review the clinical presentation and early signs and symptoms of otogenic intracranial complications (OIC) in children and adults. METHODS retrospective chart review. The medical records of all children and adults admitted in our center with OIC during the

OBJECTIVE A case of pediatric otogenic lateral sinus thrombosis is reported, followed by a substantive literature review. METHODS 104 patients were reviewed, culled from published case reports from 1993 to 2011 on the PubMed database. METHODS All full text case reports on the PubMed database from

Hemifacial weakness, or palsy, results from disruption of communication between cortical motor centres and the facial musculature along the course of the facial nerve. Bell's palsy has a typical presentation of sudden onset, mild otalgia, altered facial sensation and/or taste, with no obvious

BACKGROUND Dissection of cervical arteries is a frequent cause of stroke in young subjects. METHODS We report the case of a 34-year-old patient who experienced simultaneous dissection of both internal carotid arteries and both vertebral arteries leading to repeated motor deficit of the right

Eagle syndrome (symptoms associated with an elongated styloid process (SP)) is commonly divided into two presentations. First, the so-called classic Eagle syndrome where patients can present with unilateral sore throat, dysphagia, tinnitus, unilateral facial and neck pain and otalgia. Second, there

Eagle's syndrome is a disease without a clear lesion that is associated with repeated episodes of pharyngalgia, odynophagia, the sensation of a foreign body in the pharynx, tinnitus, and otalgia in which patients displaying these types of symptoms must be given a differential diagnosis. It is known