The Chronically Blocked Ear – A dive into external auditory exostosis

Numerous papers have reported the presence of reactive but benign bony exostosis in the external auditory canal of swimmers; of both cold and warm water. This outgrowth may lead to stenosis of the canal with associated complications such as repeated cerumen impaction, infections and also hearing los...

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Autores principales: Montebello, Bianca, Vella, Stephanie, Grech, Reuben
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology. 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9668263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36451908
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20220010
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description Numerous papers have reported the presence of reactive but benign bony exostosis in the external auditory canal of swimmers; of both cold and warm water. This outgrowth may lead to stenosis of the canal with associated complications such as repeated cerumen impaction, infections and also hearing loss. In this case report, we will present the case of a 62-year-old gentleman who was referred for imaging by an ENT specialist following difficulty with visualisation of the tympanic membrane during otoscopy.
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spelling pubmed-96682632022-11-29 The Chronically Blocked Ear – A dive into external auditory exostosis Montebello, Bianca Vella, Stephanie Grech, Reuben BJR Case Rep Case Report Numerous papers have reported the presence of reactive but benign bony exostosis in the external auditory canal of swimmers; of both cold and warm water. This outgrowth may lead to stenosis of the canal with associated complications such as repeated cerumen impaction, infections and also hearing loss. In this case report, we will present the case of a 62-year-old gentleman who was referred for imaging by an ENT specialist following difficulty with visualisation of the tympanic membrane during otoscopy. The British Institute of Radiology. 2022-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9668263/ /pubmed/36451908 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20220010 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9668263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36451908
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20220010
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