Treatment of choice in postauricular abscess as a complication of otitis media is:: (A) Incision and drainage (l and D), (B) l and D plus antibiotics, (C) Aspiration and antibiotics, (D) l and D antibiotics and mastoidectomy
Answer is D. Postaural abscess usually follows coalescent mastoiditis as after acute otitis media or in cases of mastoiditis with cholesteatoma; a mastoidectomy is therefore important in its treatment.