- Alice E Chang: Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. AJahn@smail.umaryland.edu
Intracranial complications of otitis media are rare in the age of antiobiotics and in the developed world, but they can be life threatening when they occur. We present a case of a 47-year-old woman with no contributory otologic history who developed an otogenic temporal lobe abscess.