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Chronic otitis media and middle ear variants: Is there relation?

BACKGROUND: Chronic otitis media (COM) is an inflammatory disease that lasts for a long time. It is common in developing countries. Hearing loss can result from COM. The relationship between variations in middle ear anatomy and COM was investigated in our study. AIM: To compare the prevalence of mid...

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Autores principales: Gökharman, Fatma Dilek, Şenbil, Düzgün Can, Aydin, Sonay, Karavaş, Erdal, Özdemir, Özge, Yalçın, Arzu Gülşah, Koşar, Pınar Nercis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10294180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37383905
http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v11.i15.3481
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Chronic otitis media (COM) is an inflammatory disease that lasts for a long time. It is common in developing countries. Hearing loss can result from COM. The relationship between variations in middle ear anatomy and COM was investigated in our study. AIM: To compare the prevalence of middle ear anatomic variations between the cases with COM and healthy individuals. METHODS: This retrospective study included 500 patients with COM and 500 healthy controls. The presence of those variants was determined: Koerner’s septum, facial canal dehiscence, high jugular bulb, jugular bulb dehiscence, jugular bulb diverticulum, sigmoid sinus anterior location and deep tympanic recesses. RESULTS: A total of 1000 temporal bones were examined. The incidences of these variants were respectively (15.4%-18.6%), (38.6%-41.2%), (18.2%-4.6%), (2.6%-1.2%), (1.2%-0%), (8.6%-0%), (0%-0%). It was observed that only high jugular bulb (P < 0.001) and anteriorly located sigmoid sinus frequencies (P = 0.002) in the case group were statistically significantly higher than the control groups. CONCLUSION: COM is a multifactorial disease and variants of middle ear have always been important in terms of potential risk for complication during surgery but rarely associated with COM as an etiology or as a consequence of the disease. We didn't find a positive correlation between COM and Koerner’s septum and facial canal defect. We ended up with a significant conclusion with the variants of dural venous sinuses -high jugular bulb, dehiscence of jugular bulb, diverticulum of jugular bulb and anteriorly located sigmoid sinus- that have been studied less and frequently associated with inner ear illnesses.