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Ear Clinical Aspects of Diseases of the External Ear
Built from Behrbohm — Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases with Head and Neck Surgery
What’s inside
8 sections · 66 slides
Overview
- What this topic covers
Congenital Anomalies
Malformations present from birth
- Why the auricle can be malformed
- Grading auricular dysplasia (severity of malformation)
- Severe auricular dysplasia: microtia and anotia
- Bat ear (protruding pinna / lop ear)
- Bat ears (protruding pinna)
- Syndromic ear malformations
- Franceschetti syndrome
- Congenital aural (preauricular) fistulas
- Preauricular fistula
- Rebuilding the auricle (reconstructive surgery)
Inflammations of the External Ear
From simple otitis externa to bone-threatening infection
- Nonspecific otitis externa - what it is
- Otitis externa - chronic phase and why it starts
- The canal's self-defence - and how it fails
- Otitis externa - diagnosis and treatment
- Perichondritis of the auricle
- Diffuse otitis externa: erysipelas and swimmer's ear
- Erysipelas of the skin
- Furuncle of the ear (otitis externa circumscripta)
- Lyme disease (Lyme borreliosis) and the ear
- Auricular lobule swelling in Lyme disease
- Lyme disease - the germ and the tests
- Herpes zoster oticus
- Herpes zoster oticus
- Bullous myringitis
- Necrotizing (malignant) otitis externa
- NOE - why it is easy to underestimate
- NOE - making the diagnosis
- NOE - systemic antibiotic options (anti-pseudomonal)
- NOE - treatment principles
- MRI of skull base osteomyelitis
- Chronic specific infections
Otomycosis and Eczema
Fungal infection and inflammatory skin disease of the canal
- Otomycosis (fungal ear infection)
- Eczema of the ear - the stages
- Types of ear eczema and treatment
- Contact dermatitis from nickel jewelry
Trauma
Lacerations, haematoma, frostbite and burns
- Sharp or blunt trauma to the external ear
- Cauliflower ear deformity
- Haematoma of the auricle (othematoma)
- Auricular hematoma (othematoma)
- Frostbite and burns of the ear
Wax and Foreign Bodies
Blockage of the ear canal
- Ear wax (cerumen) and wax plugs
- Removing wax safely
- Foreign bodies in the ear
- Removing an ear canal foreign body
Tumours of the External Ear
Benign, precancerous, and malignant lesions
- Benign tumours (1)
- Benign tumours (2)
- Malignancy gradient of external-ear skin lesions
- Precancerous lesions
- Actinic keratosis and basal cell carcinoma
- Basal cell carcinoma (BCC)
- Bowen disease and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC)
- Squamous cell carcinoma of the ear
- SCC spread, meatal carcinoma, and melanoma
- Melanoma of the ear - prognosis and treatment
Key Takeaways
Pulling the topic together
- Three things to remember
- The through-line of this topic
- Ear, Nose, and Throat Diseases: With Head and Neck Surgery