The CRCH specialists performed a complex ENT operation in 7.5 hours
A child from the Ulyanovsk region, who had previously undergone surgery at a place of residence, entered the Admissions department of the Children's Republican Clinical Hospital with chronic purulent otitis media, complicated by labyrinthitis.
Due to the untimely diagnosed pathology, the cholesteatoma (a tumor of an ear, which affects an eardrum and auditory bones) has destroyed the labyrinth's bone part. The child was taken for surgical intervention, which lasted 7.5 hours.
"An arrangement of the temporal bone is very difficult. And in this case, doctors needed to accurately assess the degree of destruction, the condition of destroyed and preserved structures, and the presence of any anatomical features. We had to consider all of those factors before surgery. Also, the challenge was that the child had a destroyed wall bordering the middle cranial fossa. There was meningoencephalitis, which threatened with massive intracranial complications," commented on the case the otorhinolaryngologist physician Irina Andreeva.
The ENT department specialists performed a radical surgery in the left ear with subsequent reconstruction of the postoperative cavity, tympanoplasty, mastoidoplasty, and babyrynthical fistula repair.
Currently, the patient is discharged after treatment. This patient will be under the supervision of doctors of the ENT department of the CRCH for a long time.