Skull base osteomyelitis is a relatively rare condition, generally occurring as a complication
of advanced otologic or sinus infection in immunocompromised patients. Skull base …

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 …

For the radiologist whose special interest is not head and neck imaging, analysis of temporal
bone anatomy and pathology often is difficult and confounding. A text that can teach this …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Skull base osteomyelitis typically arises as a complication
of ear infection in older diabetic patients, involves the temporal bone, and has …

Skull base osteomyelitis (SBO) is typically bacterial in origin and caused by Pseudomonas,
although the fungus Aspergillus has also rarely been implicated. SBO generally arises from …

Objective To determine whether there has been an increase in ciprofloxacin‐resistant
pseudomonas malignant otitis externa, and if this has increased the morbidity of the disease …

PURPOSE: To assess the usefulness of indium-111 white blood cell and technetium-99m
methylene diphosphonate bone single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) …

Objectives To review the terminology, clinical features, and management of temporal bone
osteomyelitis. Design and Setting Prospective study in a tertiary care center from 2001 to …

Atypical skull-base osteomyelitis is a rare but fatal disease that usually involves infection of
the ethmoid, sphenoid, occipital, or temporal bones that form the skull base. Unlike typical …

The hypoglossal nerve is a pure motor nerve. It provides motor control to the intrinsic and
extrinsic tongue muscles thus being essential for normal tongue movement and …