A bacteriological study of external ear canal was performed in 52 hospitalized cancer patients and 42 non hospitalized cancer patients at Shafa hospital, Ahwaz. Study was under taken to find out the normal flora changes in the external ear canals and to observe the prevalence of external otitis among these cancer patients. The control group consisted of 40 non-cancer patients. We observed the f...

OBJECTIVE To compare the characteristics and prognosis of patients with malignant (necrotizing) external otitis (MEO) with and without facial nerve palsy in today's era of third-generation antibiotics. DESIGN Comparative retrospective case series. SETTING Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Rabin Medical Center, a tertiary care medical center. PATIENTS Forty-eight patients...

The present study was aimed to investigate the prevalence of Malassezia in common ear affections of dogs. A total of 115 dogs with ear affections were evaluated between March 2014 and May 2015. Otoscopic examination and microbiological isolation was done for diagnosis. Case prevalence of Malassezia infection in otitis externa was 19.1%. Relatively higher proportion of Malassezia was found in ma...

Cochlear implantation in the setting of chronic otitis media or previous middle ear surgery poses several problems for the surgeon: possible spread of infection to the cochlea and the subarachnoid spaces with consequent meningitis, risk of electrode array extrusion and possible recurrence of the original disease. Several surgical strategies have been proposed to overcome these problems. In the ...

Malignant otitis externa (MOE) is a life threatening pathology that may affect the external ear and skull base. Despite the nomenclature it is an infective disease process caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in up to 98 percent of cases (1). However when appropriate antibiotics fail, other infective organisms such as Aspergillus fumigatus should be considered, especially in the immunecompromised p...

In 1959, Meltzer & Kelemen presented the first case In 1974, Chandler Malignant otitis exterrna (13 cases from 1968 to 1974) Invasive infection of the external auditory canal and skull base Typically occurs in elderly patients with diabetes mellitus Increasing reports in patients with immunodepression state, eg. AIDS, hematological disorder(Leukemia, anemia, granulocytopenia, during cytotic or ...

otitis media has a markedly lower incidence of intra-and extratemporal sequelae today than in the pre-antibiotic era. Among the complications of acute otitis media, mastoiditis continues to be the most common intratemporal complication. The classic description of acute mastoiditis involves a child with antecedent acute otitis media who develops high fever, severe otalgia, postauricular erythema...

OBJECTIVE Malignant otitis externa (MOE) is an uncommon but potentially fatal disease of the external auditory canal. The study aimed at evaluating the demographic profile, coexisting disabilities, clinical presentations, and management of MOE. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a retrospective study of patients with MOE who were treated at the Otorhinolaryngology Department of our institution. Th...

Brazilian Journal of otorhinolaryngology 78 (5) SeptemBer/octoBer 2012 http://www.bjorl.org / e-mail: [email protected] Primary lesion of Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis simulating external otitis Márcia dos Santos da Silva, Renato Telles de Sousa, Eucides Batista da Silva, Jorge Augusto de Oliveira Guerra, Nathália Matos Gomes, Renata Farias de Santana, Rebecca Souza Mubarac CASE REPORT Braz...

OBJECTIVES Malignant external otitis (MEO) is a potentially fatal infection of the external auditory canal, temporal bone, and skull base. Despite treatment with modern antibiotics, MEO can lead to skull base osteomyelitis. Until now, there have been few studies on the prognostic factors of MEO. METHODS We performed a retrospective study to identify prognostic factors of MEO, and a meta-analy...