Introduction Parotid gland squamous cell carcinoma is an uncommon aggressive neoplasm with poor prognosis. Aural polyps are usually the presenting features of chronic suppurative otitis media, tuberculous otitis media, and adenoma or carcinoma. The malignant aural polyp is very rare. Parotid gland carcinoma masquerading as an aural polyp has rarely been described in the literature. ...

Myiasis is a disease caused by fly larvae. The term "myiasis" is derived from the Greek word "myia" meaning fly. Aural myiasis is a rare clinical state and occurs frequently in children. In this article, six children with aural myiasis, caused by the fly larvae, are reported because of unusual presentation. All of the children with aural myiasis were associated with chronic otitis media. In the...

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...

Osteoma of external auditory canal is a rare benign tumour. Usually slow growing, found incidentally and often symptomless. Rarely an osteoma may present as a simple aural polyp and may be mistaken as polyps arising secondary to tuberculous,chronic otitis media or carcinoma. The presentation of an osteoma as an aural polyp is extremely rare, and there have been very few reports published Here w...

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OBJECTIVE To compare the results of permeatal approach without raising the tympano-meatal flap to end-aural or post-aural approach in myringoplasty. METHODS This Quasi-experimental study was carried out in CMH (Combined Military Hospital) Peshawar, from August 2006 to July 2013. Three hundred fifty patients of chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) with dry central; small, medium and large p...

Myiasis is a disease caused by fly larvae and aural myiasis is a rare clinic condition often occuring in children or mentally retarded people. We report the case of an unusual presentation of a bilateral aural myiasis in a mentally retarded patient with bilateral chronic otitis media caused by the third instar larvae of Wohlfahrtia magnifica. Two larvae were located on the other ear canal while...

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...

Among 55 children with cultures positive for acute otitis media with spontaneous otorrhea, 28 (51%) had cultures positive for aural Streptococcus pneumoniae, and in 10 of these, two distinct strains were detected, in which 5 had pairs of strains that were both capsule-bearing serotypes. Such cases were more likely to have cultures positive for other otopathogens than those with only one pneumoc...