Otitis Externa: A Practical Guide to Treatment and Prevention.

American Family Physician;  March 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......discomfort that is limited to the external auditory canal, while the most characteristic...and avoiding manipulation of the external auditory canal may help prevent recurrence...is an inflammatory process of the external auditory canal. In one recent study,(1) otitis...

Otalgia in children

Journal of the National Medical Association;  May 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......careful examination of the auricles, external auditory canals, and tympanic membranes. When...externa is an inflammation of the external auditory canal. Swimming, high humidity, and...hearing, and, frequently, otorrhea. The external auditory canal often appears erythematous...

Rheumatoid arthritis of the temporomandibular joint with herniation into...

The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology;  February 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......that soft tissue can present in the external auditory canal via a patent foramen of Huschke...psoriatic arthritis and a polyp in the external auditory canal. Typically, neoplastic, inflammatory...temporomandibular joint do not present in the external auditory canal. We present a ...

Association of primary intracranial meningioma and cutaneous meningioma of...

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...* A cutaneous meningioma of the external auditory canal occurred in a 48-year-old Filipino...without extension to the area of the external auditory canal. Meningioma in the external...cases.1 Cutaneous meningioma in the external auditory canal is very rare, and only two...

Case report: expanding the differential diagnosis of intractable cough.

American Family Physician;  November 15, 2005 ;     625 words ......ventilation tube deep (medial) in the external auditory canal. On a follow-up visit three...was now positioned laterally in the external auditory canal and was removed easily. on...nerve supply of the epithelium of the external auditory canal is via branches of the trigeminal...

Malignant external otitis: a case report and review.

American Family Physician;  February 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......constant pain, especially around the external auditory canal. The pinna was tender on manipulation...otorrhea was present in the right external auditory canal. No fever, chills, sweats or...swollen and erythematous near the external auditory canal and the surrounding pinna...

Fungal malignant otitis enterna due to Scedosporium Apiospermum

The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology;  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......externa (MOE) is an infection of the external auditory canal that invades the skull base...middle ear space, as opposed to the external auditory canal. Surgical debridement and amphotericin...externa (MOE), an infection of the external auditory canal that invades the skull base...

Multifocal cholesteatoma of the external auditory canal following blast...

The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology;  March 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Posttraumatic cholesteatoma of the external auditory canal is a rare condition that may...of multifocal cholesteatoma of the external auditory canal following blast injury is presented...external ear canal. Cholesteatoma of the external auditory canal (EAC) is an uncommon condition...

external acoustic meatus

The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia;      81 words ......Medical Encyclopedia 10-01-1996 external acoustic meatus external auditory canal, the canal of the outer ear. It is made of bone and...auricle) to the eardrum (tympanic membrane). Also called external auditory canal. The ideas, procedures and suggestions contained...

Color Atlas of Otoscopy - From Diagnosis to Surgery

The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology;  February 1, 2004 ;     237 words ......practitioners. Contents'. Diseases that are confined to involvement of the external auditory canal or tympanic membrane. Besides otomycosis and other diseases of the external auditory canal are rarer entities such as histiocytosis, secretory otitis...

meatus

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      53 words ......x259;s / • n. ( pl. same or meatuses ) Anatomy an opening leading to the interior of the body. ∎  (also external auditory meatus ) the passage leading into the ear. ORIGIN: late Middle English : from Latin, ‘passage,’ from meare...

external auditory meatus

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      14 words ...ex·ter·nal au·di·to·ry me·a·tus • n. see meatus .

Cerumen impaction.(Disease/Disorder overview)

American Family Physician;  May 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ......normally extruded product of the external auditory canal. It is usually asymptomatic...epithelial cells and hair from the external auditory canal. It protects the skin in the...otitis externa. (1-3) Because the external auditory canal is innervated by the auricular...

Experimental models of aural cholesteatomas in mogolian gerbils

The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology;  February 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......although keratin accumulation in the external auditory canal could be found in all animals...Although epithelial hyperplasia of the external auditory canal was most prominent in the ECL...be readily induced in gerbils by external auditory canal ligation.2 Unlike in other...

Imaging case study of the month: Fibrous dysplasia of the temporal bone

The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......infections and bony lesions in the external auditory canal, especially in young patients...petrous apex and narrowing of the external auditory canal. The middle ear, ossicular...swelling and obliteration of the external auditory canal. All parts of the temporal...