Modern pediatric otology includes conservative and surgical treatment options for external, middle, internal ear and lateral skull diseases.
Otology and otosurgery are in close connection with neurology and neurosurgery and thus, our professionals from different fields cooperate with each other.
There are neurologic conditions (i.e. intracranial complications), both in pediatric and general otology, that are otogenic. Those are:
Meningitis
Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis
Epidural, subdural, brain and cerebellar abscesses,
Otogenic hydrocephalus
In pediatric neurology dizziness is common as well and the causes are:
Meniere's disease
Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
Vestibular neuronitis
Labyrinthitis
Skull base and brainstem tumors can have otoneurological manifestations as well.
Early diagnosis and treatment of otitis media is crucial, and extracranial complications are:
Cholesteatoma, cholesterol granuloma` congenital and acquired
Facial nerve paralysis
Labyrinthitis
Mastoiditis with atypical forms
Different types of hearing disorders