Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) is a chronic inflammation of the middle ear and mastoid cavity. It is predominantly a disease of the developing world. Clinical features are recurrent otorrhoea through a tympanic perforation, with conductive hearing loss of varying severity. Experts dispute the duration of otorrhoea required to determine it as a chronic infection the World Health Organiz...

INTRODUCTION Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) is a common cause of hearing impairment and disability. Occasionally it can lead to fatal intracranial infections and acute mastoiditis, especially in developing countries. METHODS AND OUTCOMES We conducted a systematic review and aimed to answer the following clinical questions: What are the effects of treatments for chronic suppurative ot...

Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) is a chronic inflammation of the middle ear and mastoid cavity. It is predominantly a disease of the developing world. Clinical features are recurrent otorrhoea through a tympanic perforation, with conductive hearing loss of varying severity. Experts dispute the duration of otorrhoea required to determine it as a chronic infection the World Health Organiz...

the authors presented a proposal for surgical classification of chronic suppurative otitis media which may be used' for evaluating the surgical outcome of the disease.

BACKGROUND Otitis media is a more frequent occurrence in children, and the disease may progress from an acute to chronic state if appropriate and timely intervention is not initiated. METHODS A total of 212 children aged 6 months to 10 years were examined and treated for otitis media, in a 13-month hospital-based study. RESULTS Acute otitis media was diagnosed in 130 (61.3 per cent) of the ...

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...

Malignancy of the middle ear and mastoid antrum is rare. These malignancies are less than 1%of all head-andneck malignancies. Squamous cell carcinoma is the most common among all malignant tumours. Squamous cell carcinoma of the middle ear and chronic suppurative otitis media may co-exist but no definitive correlation has been proven. Here we are presenting a case of squamous cell carcinoma of ...

the occurrence of mast cells is studied in the normal facial nerve and in the facial nerve post mortem exam of patients with chronic suppurative otitis media without associated facial paralysis. a small number of mast cells were found in the normal facial nerve. these cells were usually located in close proximity to the endoneural and epineural blood vessels. the number of mast cells was increa...

OBJECTIVES To determine the frequency of cholesteatoma in a population of patients with chronic suppurative otitis media, and to determine whether this frequency is affected by ethnicity. PATIENTS The study included 6005 patients with chronic suppurative otitis media seen during the course of 30 charitable surgical 'ear camps' in Nepal. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Proportion of patients with each...

Objectives: The objective of the study was to detect and analyze the bacteriological profile in cases of chronic suppurative otitis media with cholesteatoma and to assess the commonest organism found in cases of chronic suppurative otitis media with cholesteatoma. Material and methods: A total of 75 cases of chronic suppurative otitis media with cholesteatoma were admitted in E.N.T. Unit-1, May...