Acute otitis media
Intracranial complications of sinusitis are rare but life threatening. Intracranial complications of sinusitis and acute otitis media are best managed in a specialist centre with multidisciplinary input. Concurrent ORL and neurosurgical intervention reduces abscess recurrence and requirement for revision neurosurgery in sinogenic complications and should represent the standard of care. Endoscopic sinus surgery is the ORL modality of choice in experienced hands 1).
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