Acute otitis externa.

Comparing Cerumen Bacterial Flora in Acute Otitis Externa Patients and Healthy Controls

Comparing Cerumen Bacterial Flora in Acute Otitis Externa Patients and Healthy Controls

Introduction: In spite of the fact that acute otitis media is a systemic and symptomatic disease with sever otalgia, otitis media with effusion (OME) is an asymptomatic and silent disease. OME is the most common cause of conductive hearing loss in children and has adverse effects on speech development and cognitive skills. Results: Among 1001 children under study, 57 subjects (5.7%) were dia...

Squamous cell carcinoma of the ear masquerading as malignant otitis externa.

While both acute and chronic otitis externa represent conditions that are encountered commonly by primary care physicians, malignant otitis externa can be a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to generalists and subspecialists alike. Malignant otitis eXterna is a devastating infection of the external auditory canal, which begins as a pseudomonas dermatitis but can progress to an invasive vascu...

Predisposing Factors for the Complications of Deep Neck Infection

Introduction: Cerumen is known as ear wax, produced regularly by cerumen and lipid secretary glands. Regarding the effect of Mazandaran province's humid weather on the prevalence of pathogenic microorganisms, this study was performed to determine the bacterial flora of the ear in patients with acute otitis externa and its comparison with healthy subjects. Materials and Methods: In this case-...

Inflammatory cast of the tympanic membrane after acute otitis media.

OBJECTIVE To describe a relatively unknown clinical entity - inflammatory cast of the tympanic membrane after acute otitis media - and its simple out-patient treatment. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective review of case series. SETTING Subspecialty practice at a tertiary hospital. PATIENTS Seven patients diagnosed previously with acute otitis media with perforation or otitis externa, and with pers...