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Malignant external otitis in an infant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Dan Nir*
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Rambam Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Tsila Nir
Affiliation:
Department of Paediatrics B, Rambam Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Joshua Danino
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Rambam Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Henry Z. Joachims
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Rambam Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
*
Dan Nir, M.D. Department of OtolaryngologyRambam Medical CenterPOB 9602, Haifa 31096, Israel

Abstract

Ten cases of malignant external otitis in children have been reported hitherto. These are reviewed, and an eleventh case, a three-month-old infant associated with genetic granulocytopenia, is presented. On the grounds of the reported paediatric cases, the erudition in childhood is compared with the more common form in the adult, and is found to be much less linked with diabetes mellitus and to have a far better prognosis, with practically no mortality.

Type
Clinical Records
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1990

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