External Ear Disease

This article reviews the signs, symptoms, pathophysiology, workup, and treatment of each. Patients with either pathology can often be managed in the clinic with debridement; however, EACC is more likely to involve osteonecrosis and require more extensive operative management if disease is not confined to the canal on account of the bony erosion characteristic of cholesteatoma. If required for extensive disease, surgical approaches to both pathologies are similar.

Source: Otolaryngologic clinics of North America - August 5, 2023 Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Tina Munjal, Peter J. Kullar, Jennifer Alyono Source Type: research