File:Cerebellar abscess secondary to mastoiditis (Radiopaedia 26284-26413 Axial bone window 6).jpg

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Description
  • Radiopaedia case ID: 26284
  • Image ID: 5274883
  • Image stack position: 6/84
  • Plane projection: Axial
  • Aux modality: bone window
  • Study findings: The left mastoid air cell are opacified as is the middle ear with partial destruction of the ossicular chain. The petrous temporal bone contains a mixture of lucent and sclerotic with destruction of the medial cortex close to the petrous apex.
  • Modality: CT
  • System: Head & Neck
  • Findings: Huge ring enhancing cystic lesion with perilesional edema in the left cerebellar hemisphere, which is displacing and effacing the 4th ventricular with a resultant triventricular hydrocephalus. The cerebellar tonsils herniate inferiorly due to mass effect.
Date Published: 11th Dec 2013
Source https://radiopaedia.org/cases/cerebellar-abscess-secondary-to-mastoiditis
Author Ian Bickle
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