Extensive Base of Skull Osteomyelitis: Why Does It Still Occur?

Skull base osteomyelitis (SBO) is a rare yet serious intratemporal infection that often masquerades as a skull base malignancy. It is most common in diabetic and immunocompromised patients. We present a case of an elderly diabetic patient with end-stage renal disease with progressive malignant otitis externa.

Neonatal hypoxic encephalopathy: Correlation between post-cooling brain MRI findings and 2 years neurodevelopmental outcome.

Objective: This study aims to evaluate the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain patterns among hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) babies who underwent post-cooling MRI brain as well as to correlate the post-cooling brain scoring with patient's neurodevelopmental outcome at 2 years.

Subjects And Methods: It was a retrospective cross sectional study carried out at a tertiary university hospital. Record of patients diagnosed with neonatal HIE from 2007 until 2016 who completed 72 h of cooling therapy and had MRI brain within 2 weeks of life were included in this study.