Pott's Puffy Tumor: Intracranial Extension Not Requiring Neurosurgical Intervention. 2020

Michael W Song, and Margaret Montovano, and Aleksander Kubiak, and Shaza Khalid, and Jerrold Ellner
Infectious Diseases, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, USA.

Pott's puffy tumor, typified by a subperiosteal abscess underlying the frontal bone, is an uncommonly encountered clinical entity that can occur in the setting of local trauma or secondary to frontal sinusitis. Diagnosis can be challenging, as cultures may be sterile, and the condition must be differentiated from neoplasm and superficial and soft tissue infection. Although more common in the pediatric population, Pott's puffy tumor must remain on the differential with a high index of suspicion in adult patients who fit the clinical picture. Early diagnosis with CT or MRI and therapeutic medical and surgical intervention are crucial as intracranial complications, such as abscess and empyema can occur and may be fatal. We present an adult patient with a history of inhaled drug abuse who presented with Pott's puffy tumor with meningitis and bifrontal epidural abscesses at presentation. There is evidence in the literature that management of sinus-related intracranial epidural abscess with antibiotic therapy and adequate surgical or endoscopic surgical drainage may bypass the need for neurosurgical intervention, as was the case here.

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