Pott's puffy tumor: Sonographic diagnosis
โ Scribed by Brighita Weinberg; Shilpa Gupta; Manuel J. Thomas; Harvey Stern
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 117 KB
- Volume
- 33
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0091-2751
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โฆ Synopsis
We report a case of a child with Pott's puffy tumor (PPT) in which ultrasonography contributed to making the diagnosis. The clinical presentation and laboratory investigations were inconclusive, and the diagnosis of PPT was made by ultrasonography and subsequently confirms CT scan and MRI.
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FIGURE 1. (A) Scrota1 wall thickening (curved arrow) and gas (long arrow) in the scrotal wall, parallel to the transducer face with reverberation artifact (short arrow). (B) Longitudinal section of the scrotum shows testes (t), peritesticular fluid (arrowhead) and gas (small arrow) in the scrotal wa