Luc abscess: an extraordinary complication of acute otitis media.
Anıl Er, Taner Kemal Erdağ, Aykut Çağlar, Özgür Kümüş, Murat Duman
Author Information
Anıl Er: Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, Balçova, 35340, İzmir, Turkey. Electronic address: anler.278@gmail.com.
Taner Kemal Erdağ: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, Balçova, 35340, İzmir, Turkey. Electronic address: taner.erdag@deu.edu.tr.
Aykut Çağlar: Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, Balçova, 35340, İzmir, Turkey. Electronic address: aykutcaglar@gmail.com.
Özgür Kümüş: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, Balçova, 35340, İzmir, Turkey. Electronic address: ozgur.kumus@deu.edu.tr.
Murat Duman: Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, Balçova, 35340, İzmir, Turkey. Electronic address: mduman@deu.edu.tr.
Luc abscess is an uncommon suppurative complication of otitis media. Unfamiliarity of this complication leads to delayed diagnosis and treatment. This abscess is usually benign. Infection in the middle ear spreads via anatomic preexisting pathways, and this process results with subperiosteal pus collection. Conservative treatment with drainage under empirical wide spectrum antibiotic is efficient. Here,we present a 9-year-old boy who had left facial swelling after a period of otalgia, diagnosed as Luc abscess without mastoiditis.
