Open AccessFatal Dental Abscess: Descending Necrotising Mediastinitis
Author(s) -
Atalay Şahin,
Fatih Meteroğlu,
İsmet Rezani Toptancı,
Tunç Eren,
Canan Eren
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
respiratory case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2147-2475
DOI - 10.5505/respircase.2013.58066
Subject(s) - mediastinitis , medicine , abscess , dentistry , surgery
Mediastinitis is a rare infectious disease around the vital organs in the mediastinum. Descending necrotizing mediastinitis (DNM) is caused by odontogenic, pharyngeal, cervical infections, sternotomy or diagnostic and therapeutic instrumentation. Unless it is diagnosed in a timely manner and properly treated, the outcome is fatal. Delay in treatment leads to the spread of the infection down to the mediatinum. We present a case of DNM in 17-year-old girl suffering from a dental abscess