Petrous apex lesion following meningitis: management and discussion

A 9-year-old male with history of mixed hearing loss presented with petrous apex lesion following episode of meningitis. Serial imaging revealed persistence of the lesion necessitating biopsy to rule out malignancy. Biopsy revealed inflammatory changes. The management of petrous apex lesions followi...

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Autores principales: Elmaraghy, Charles, Bishop, Ryan, Barron, Christine, Adunka, Oliver
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8460338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34567512
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjab371
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author Elmaraghy, Charles
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description A 9-year-old male with history of mixed hearing loss presented with petrous apex lesion following episode of meningitis. Serial imaging revealed persistence of the lesion necessitating biopsy to rule out malignancy. Biopsy revealed inflammatory changes. The management of petrous apex lesions following meningitis can be conservative but repeat imaging is necessary to rule out progression and to rule out neoplastic process.
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spelling pubmed-84603382021-09-24 Petrous apex lesion following meningitis: management and discussion Elmaraghy, Charles Bishop, Ryan Barron, Christine Adunka, Oliver J Surg Case Rep Case Report A 9-year-old male with history of mixed hearing loss presented with petrous apex lesion following episode of meningitis. Serial imaging revealed persistence of the lesion necessitating biopsy to rule out malignancy. Biopsy revealed inflammatory changes. The management of petrous apex lesions following meningitis can be conservative but repeat imaging is necessary to rule out progression and to rule out neoplastic process. Oxford University Press 2021-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8460338/ /pubmed/34567512 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjab371 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. © The Author(s) 2021. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8460338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34567512
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