otitis externa
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inflamación del canal externo del oído
Key facts
- Other names
- External otitis, swimmer's ear
- Specialty
- Otorhinolaryngology
- Symptoms
- Ear pain , swelling of the ear canal, decreased hearing , difficulty chewing
- Types
- Acute, chronic
- Causes
- Bacterial infection , allergies , autoimmune disorders
- Risk factors
- Swimming, minor trauma from cleaning, using hearing aids or ear plugs, diabetes , psoriasis , dermatitis
- Diagnostic method
- Based on symptoms, microbial culture
- Differential diagnosis
- Perichondritis
- Prevention
- Acetic acid ear drops
- Treatment
- Antibiotic drops such as ofloxacin , acetic acid
- Frequency
- ~2% of people a year
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
3,824 papers- Malignant otitis externa: An updated review.American journal of otolaryngology · 2021
- [Otitis externa].MMW Fortschritte der Medizin · 2019
- Otitis externa.Primary care · 2014
- Otitides: Acute and Chronic Otitis Media and Externa.Primary care · 2025
- Otitis externa.Otolaryngologic clinics of North America · 1996
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- symptom or sign
- Subclass of
- disease
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- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C3299
- Commons category
- Otitis externa
- exact match
- identifiers.org/doid/DOID:9463
- drug or therapy used for treatment
- finafloxacin
- health specialty
- otolaryngology
- ICD-9-CM
- 380.1
- ICPC 2 ID
- H70
- studied by
- audiology
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Article · Español
La otitis externa es una inflamación del conducto auditivo externo que puede ser infecciosa o no infecciosa.Se diferencia de la otitis media en que esta afecta al oído medio.
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