introduction: in developing countries, chronic otitis media (com) and cholesteatoma are relatively prevalent.  within the field of otology, com surgery remains one of the most common surgical treatments. most recent studies evaluating the potential prognostic factors in com surgery have addressed graft success rate and types of middle ear and mastoid pathology. there has been much controversy a...

conclusions in conclusion, in spite of usually benign features, chronic otitis media may lead to serious complications such as brain abscess. every effort should be made for microbiological diagnosis of the causative pathogen(s) for appropriate antibiotic treatment. introduction brain abscess is a rare life-threatening focal intracerebral infection. the etiology of brain abscess depends on trau...

BACKGROUND Chronic otitis media is a chronic inflammatory disease of the middle ear cleft which is manifested as deafness and ear discharge. It is a common condition affecting 0.5 - 30% of any community worldwide, and most common in developing countries. The prevalence mainly depends on age, low socio-economic status, overcrowding and limited medical facilities. OBJECTIVE To compare the clini...

the bicuspid aortic valve is known to be the most common congenital cardiac malformation, with an approximate incidence rate of 1-2% in the general population. most patients are unaware of the disease until the onset of infective endocarditis, which is a life-threatening complication that may affect a heart valve or other cardiac structures at the site of endothelial damage. a 22-year-old man p...

introduction: although the incidence and prevalence of chronic suppurative otitis media (csom) has been decreased in recent decades, but it is still a major health problem in both developing and developed countries. csom can cause major and life-threatening complications such as hearing loss, meningitis and cerebral abscess. since hearing loss is the most common complication of csom, we aimed t...

Health technology The study evaluated tympanomastoid surgery. A comparator was not explicitly stated at the outset, although it was likely to be no tympanomastoid surgery. The health technology was compared between two different patient groups. These were patients with wet ear suffering from chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) and patients with dry ear suffering from CSOM. The wet-ear group...

Serios otitis media is one of those ear Trou­bles that has enjoyed a very extensive research two decaides.  I ts recognition in medical literature goes b,ick tc eighteenth century. Since then there has been rather little progress in this field. The dis­covery of antibiotcs and thence lessening of in­ fecticus ear diseases, attention has been paid to preserve the function of ear, and naturally...

Otitis media occurs along a continuum. For example, otitis media with effusion characterized by fluid pathology can lead to chronic otitis media plus chronic mastoiditis, characterized by the presence of intractable tissue pathology such as cholesteatoma, cholesterol granuloma or granulation tissue. The literature defines chronic otitis media as having a tympanic membrane perforation and otorrh...

this study evaluated the histopathologic changes in the round window niche. , and membrane in cases of chronic suppurative otitis media. the pathologic process was found in all subjects. fibrocystic or fibrous tissue was most commonly seen, while active granulation was less developed. the round window membrane was thicker and inflamed throughout its layers. inflammatory invasion of the inner ea...

introduction: an otogenic brain abscess is a common ent problem but an otogenic trapezius abscess can also be experienced in otolaryngological practice, particularly in patients with chronic suppurative otitis media.   case report: we report a rare case of a trapezius abscess in an eight-year-old girl who presented at the ent, head and neck surgery postgraduate medical institute, lady reading h...