UNLABELLED Relatively poorer audibility threshold for high frequency was found in children with medical history of multiples episodes of secretory otitis media. AIM to characterize the audibility threshold for high frequencies in normal-hearing children with medical history of multiples episodes of bilateral secretory otitis media. MATERIALS AND METHODS a sample of 31 children, from both ge...

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...

BACKGROUND Bacteria which are metabolically active yet unable to be cultured and eradicated by antibiotic treatment are present in the middle ear effusion of children with chronic otitis media with effusion (COME) and recurrent acute otitis media (rAOM). These observations are suggestive of biofilm presence or intracellular sequestration of bacteria and may play a role in OM pathogenesis. The a...

OBJECTIVE To review the literature concerning the impact of otitis media on language acquisitions in children. SOURCES OF DATA Medline. The following keywords were used for searching: otitis media, hearing, language and children. SUMMARY OF THE FINDING: The hearing loss observed in otitis media may be a result of: 1) structural disorders in the middle ear; 2) ultrastructural lesions and bioch...

introduction: the lenticular process of the incus succumbs to necrosis in chronic otitis media. few researchers have addressed the issue of autograft incus preservation in the soft tissue of the tragus or mastoid cavity. nonetheless, preservation of the incus in this method during the second stage of ossiculoplasty is a subject that is still up for debate. this study was carried out to demonstr...

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 (OM) is an infection localized in the middle ear: mastoid, middle ear cavity, Eustachian tube. The classification of OM includes otitis media with effusion, otitis media without effusion, and chronic otitis media. A rare complication of chronic otitis is cholesterol granuloma of the petrous apex. It may develop in any aerated portion of the temporal bone but most commonly develops ...