mastoid air cells

The surgery used to be a common way to treat an infection in the mastoid air cells.

A Mastoidectomy is a procedure performed to remove the mastoid air cells.

Inflammation which has spread to the mastoid air cells is very difficult to drain and causes considerable pain.

These cells are called mastoid air cells.

Any mastoid air cells are carefully waxed off to prevent postoperative cerebrospinal fluid leak.

He had staining of the petrous ridge of the temporal bones and mastoid air cells, bilaterally.

The pathophysiology of mastoiditis is straightforward: bacteria spread from the middle ear to the mastoid air cells, where the inflammation causes damage to the bony structures.

Cortical Mastoidectomy (Also known as schwartze procedure) - Removal of Mastoid air cells is undertaken without affecting the middle ear.

This recess is a possible route of spread of infection to the mastoid air cells located in the mastoid process of the temporal bone of the skull.

The groove for the transverse sinus is separated from the innermost of the mastoid air cells by a very thin lamina of bone, and even this may be partly deficient.

The antrum communicates behind and below with the mastoid air cells, which vary considerably in number, size, and form; the antrum and mastoid air cells are lined by mucous membrane, continuous with that lining the tympanic cavity.

The tympanic antrum is a cavity of some considerable size at the time of birth; the mastoid air cells may be regarded as diverticula from the antrum, and begin to appear at or before birth; by the fifth year they are well-marked, but their development is not completed until toward puberty.