Pediatric Infectious Disease: Unusual Head and Neck Infections

Otoscopic findings are critical in making an accurate acute diagnosis of otitis media. In children, 80% to 90% of orbital or postseptal cellulitis is most commonly secondary to acute or chronic sinusitis. The syndrome of periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, and cervical adenitis is the most common periodic fever disease in children. Human papillomavirus is a causative agent of oropharyngeal cancer in 45% to 90% of cases.