Pathological changes of the pyramidal eminence in chronic suppurative otitis media
Djeric, D.
Revue de Laryngologie - Otologie - Rhinologie 114(1): 17-20
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0035-1334 PMID: 8191044 Document Number: 410069
Temporal bones of patients with chronic suppurative otitis media were used for evaluation of possibility of penetration of the infection from the cavum tympani into the facial nerve via the pyramidal eminence. The infection can spread to the facial nerve in two ways: via the natural opening on the pyramidal eminence through which tendon of the musculus stapedius is passing, without bone lesions of the eminence and via the sites of bone destruction on the eminence.