Citelli abscess

Citelli abscesses are a suppurative complication of acute mastoiditis. The term may refer to extracranial abscesses in two different juxtamastoidal locations:

• posterior to the mastoid involving/abutting the occipital bone
• anteroinferior to the mastoid tip involving the digastric muscle or within the digastric triangle

History and etymology

Salvatore Citè​lli (1875-1947) was an Italian otorhinolaryngologist .

See also

• otitis media
• acute mastoiditis
• Bezold abscess