Mingjing Cai, Ting Wu, Guangfei Li, Bo Qian, Hongbo Ji, Zhiqin Lu, Jianrong Yang, Qingxiang Zhang, Shuangba He, Wei Meng
The clinical diagnosis and treatment, including information such as age, history, clinical symptoms, signs, audiology, imaging examination, mode of operation, and postoperative follow-up, of a patient with suppurative temporomandibular arthritis caused by chronic suppurative otitis media were analyzed. As conservative drug treatment and drainage surgery were ineffective, the patient was treated with microscopic open radical mastoidectomy, tympanoplasty, the plasty of the cavity of auricular concha, facial nerve decompression, coarctation of the mastoid cavity combined with otoendoscpic resection of the lower temporomandibular lesions, and standard anti-inflammatory treatment after surgery...
July 25, 2023: Ear, Nose, & Throat Journal