Intracranial complications of atticoantral chronic suppurative otitis media
When a pathological destructive process goes beyond the middle ear to the meninges, blood vessels of the skull and brain different otogenic intracranial complications (ICC) occur, making the most significant contribution to the structure of disability and mortality causes in ENT practice: extradural and subdural abscess, meningitis, sinus thrombosis, brain abscess, arachnoiditis. Despite the fact of ICC leveling because of diagnostics and treatment enhancement the growth of low-intensity, erased clinical manifestations of the disease increased, leading to diagnostic pitfalls. On-time sanifying surgery is an appropriate prevention of ICC in chronic atticoantral suppurative otitis media.