Case Notes
History
88 year old woman in the emergency room with left sided headache, otalgia, mastoid region tenderness, fever and lower nerve cranial nerve deficits.Exam
Noncontrast CT of the temporal bone with 0.5-1.0 mm thick sections obtained in the axial plane and reformatted 3D and/or in the coronal and sagittal planes and viewed inter actively in 3 dimensions at the computer work station.