A Rare Case of Odontogenic Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media

Common causes of chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) include persistence of acute otitis media, cholesteatoma, and eustachian tube dysfunction. We describe a patient who presented with CSOM of several years duration refractory to medical management. Ultimately, a dental abscess was found on comp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Schartz, Derrek A, Polacco, Marc A, Holmgren, Eric P, McCool, Ryan R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
Materias:
Otolaryngology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6530807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31172000
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4284
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Sumario:Common causes of chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) include persistence of acute otitis media, cholesteatoma, and eustachian tube dysfunction. We describe a patient who presented with CSOM of several years duration refractory to medical management. Ultimately, a dental abscess was found on computed tomography (CT) to be the source of concurrent ipsilateral maxillary sinusitis and mastoiditis. Extraction of the molar abscess resulted in complete resolution of her CSOM and need to be on antibiotics. To our knowledge, this is the first report of an odontogenic cause of chronic suppurative otitis media.

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