• Am J Emerg Med · Jan 2016

    Case Reports

    Luc abscess: an extraordinary complication of acute otitis media.

    • Anıl Er, Taner Kemal Erdağ, Aykut Çağlar, Özgür Kümüş, and Murat Duman.
    • Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, Balçova, 35340, İzmir, Turkey. Electronic address: anler.278@gmail.com.
    • Am J Emerg Med. 2016 Jan 1;34(1):117.e1-3.

    AbstractLuc 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.

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