Despite the availability of new antibiotics, chronic otitis media can still lead to major complications in developing countries. Except for mastoiditis, it is rare to see more than one complication in one patient simultaneously. We present the case of a 21 year old female who presented with facial nerve paralysis, labyrinthine fistula and brain abscess due to chronic otitis media. It is emphasi...

Active chronic otitis media is a common condition affecting 0 6%,' of adults in the United Kingdom. Initial management is usually by general practitioners, who annually prescribe systemic and topical antibiotics on at least 178 000 and 73 000 occasions respectively (unpublished observations). Despite this there have been few studies of the efficacy of antibiotics,'-4 and no study has included a...

A 17 year old male presented with seizures, headache, and fever and left chronic suppurative otitis media. A 35 year old male presented with headache, giddiness, vomiting, pain in eyes, diplopia and right chronic suppurative otitis media. Brain imaging in both revealed thrombosis of lateral and sigmoid sinus and also of internal jugular vein on the left and right side respectively. A diagnosis ...

introduction: chronic suppurative otitis media (csom) is considered one of the most common causes of acquired hearing impairment in developing countries. csom is a multifactorial persistent inflammatory disease of the middle ear. a distinct pathophysiologic mechanism linking allergic rhinitis (ar) and csom remains to evolve. the purpose of this study was to investigate the association between a...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of otitis media in Greenlandic children is one of the highest in the world. International studies have shown that otitis-prone children may benefit from tubulation of the tympanic membrane. However, it is unknown whether these results can be applied to Greenlandic children and trials on the effects of ventilation tubes in high-risk populations have, to our knowledge, n...

OBJECTIVE To explore the association between chronic suppurative otitis media and sensorineural hearing loss. METHOD The files of 147 patients with unilateral chronic suppurative media were reviewed in a retrospective study. Differences between diseased and control ear bone conduction thresholds were analysed by the paired student's t-test over the four frequencies (0.5 kHz, 1.0 kHz, 2.0 kHz,...

Otitis media (OM) is the most common childhood disease. Almost all children experience at least one episode of otitis media with effusion (OME) or acute otitis (OMA) during childhood, and a substantial subgroup is confronted with recurrent episodes. If not treated adequately, OM may lead to temporary or permanent hearing loss. It is well known that bacteria and viruses cause OMA, and may play a...

INTRODUCTION Citelli's abscess is an extratemporal complication of otitis media. It occurs when pus from the mastoid tip trickles down along the posterior belly of the digastric muscle to the occipital and cervical region. It is a very unusual presenting complication of chronic otitis media with no available data in the until now. CASE REPORT A 10-year-old female was presented to our outpatie...

introduction: salivary gland tumors are relatively rare and constitute 3-4% of all head and neck neoplasms. the majority (70%) of salivary gland tumors arise in the parotid gland. recommended treatment for a parotid mass is surgical excision with a surrounding cuff of normal tissue to prevent recurrence. materials and methods: this is a retrospective study of 300 patients who were operated by a...

PURPOSE Even though aural fullness is ubiquitous among patients presenting to otolaryngology clinics, the association between aural fullness and disease development has not yet been clearly determined. MATERIALS AND METHODS Our study was performed on outpatients from June 2006 to February 2010 whose major complaint was "ear fullness", "aural fullness", or "ear pressure". We assessed their dem...