<総説>急性歯性感染症に基づく頭蓋内膿瘍と海綿洞血栓性静脈炎

Various antibiotics are in use today. In spite of their effectiveness, many case reports of intracranial abscess caused by odontogenic infections are frequently found in the literatures. This seems to indicate the complexities of diagnosis and treatment of serious infections in the maxillofacial area. These complexities are explained from a view point of regional anatomy and oral microbiology in this paper