Impending Meningitis in a Case of Tuberculous Otitis Media
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Primary tuberculous otitis media is a rare disease and it results in silent mastoiditis. It is an atypical cause of chronic suppurative infection of middle ear and constitutes for 0.05% to 0.9% of chronic otitis media [1]. It presents as painless otorrhea that fails to respond to the usual antibiotic treatment. It is also associated with hearing loss that is disproportionate to the extent of the disease [2].
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