Mediastinal abscess and empyema complicating an odontogenic infra-temporal fossa abscess

Odontogenic infection can spread through fascial planes into adjacent anatomical spaces. Spread to the mediastinum is rare but well-described and may be associated with thoracic empyema1,2 and mortality from mediastinal spread is thought to be around 30% to 40%.3 Our patient developed a mediastinal abscess and empyema from an odontogenic abscess of the infratemporal fossa.

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