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Current cases & concept| Volume 5, ISSUE 2, P202-206, June 1981

Posterior fossa inflammation resulting from contiguous mastoid disease demonstrated by computerized tomography

  • John F. Healy
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    Radiology Department, University of California Medical Center, San Diego, California, USA
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      Abstract

      Inflammatory mastoid disease with adjoining localized posterior fossa empyema was detected and demonstrated by cranial computed tomography. The patient's hospital course was followed through his antibiotic and eventual definitive surgical therapy by computerized tomography.
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