Predicting outcome of malignant external otitis

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 339-343

  Joshua, Ben Zion ^a   Sulkes, Jaqueline ^a   Raveh, Eyal ^b,c   Bishara, Jihad ^a   Nageris, Ben I ^a,c  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Malignant external otitis; Outcome; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BONE DESTRUCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDEMA; ELDERLY CARE; EXTERNAL OTITIS; FEMALE; GRANULATION TISSUE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OTALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SURVIVAL; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; OTITIS EXTERNA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 41349121628     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e3181661879     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Meltzer PE, Kelemen G. Pyocyaneous osteomyelitis of the temporal bone, mandible and zygoma. Laryngoscope 1959;169:1300-16.
2. Chandler JR. Malignant external otitis. Laryngoscope 1968;78:1257-94.
3. Rubin J, Yu VL. Malignant external otitis: insights into pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, diagnosis and therapy. Am J Med 1988;85:391-8.
4. Cohen D, Friedman P. The diagnostic criteria of malignant external otitis. J Laryngol Otol 1987;101:216-21.
5. Shpitzer T, Stern Y, Cohen O, Levy R, Segal K, Feinmesser R. Malignant external otitis in nondiabetic patients. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol 1993;102:870-2.
6. Chandler JR. Malignant external otitis: further considerations. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol 1977;86:417-28.
7. Sade J, Lang R, Goshen S, Kitzes-Cohen R. Ciprofloxacin treatment of malignant external otitis. Am J Med 1989;87:138S-415.
8. Fairley J, Glover GW. Treating malignant otitis with oral ciprofloxacin. Br Med J 1989;299:794-5.
9. Sabater F, Mensa J, Domenech J, Lance M, Carulla M. Necrotizing external otitis treated with ciprofloxacin. A case report. J Laryngol Otol 1988;102:606-7.
10. Joachims HZ, Danino J, Raz R. Malignant external otitis: treatment with fluoroquinolones. Am J Otolaryngol 1988;9:102-5.
11. Morrison GA, Bailey CM. Relapsing malignant otitis externa successfully treated with ciprofloxacin. J Laryngol Otol 1988;102:872-6.
12. Berenholz L, Katzenell V, Harell M. Evolving resistant pseudomonas to ciprofloxacin in malignant otitis externa. Laryngoscope 2002;112:1619-22.
13. Cohen D. Borderline cases of malignant external otitis. Am J Otol 1990;11:209-11.
14. Johnson MP, Ramphal R. Malignant external otitis: report on therapy with ceftazidime and review of therapy and prognosis. Rev Infect Dis 1990;12:173-80.
15. Kimmelman CP, Lucente FE. Use of ceftazidime for malignant external otitis. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol 1989;98:721-5.
16. Shupak A, Greenberg E, Hardoff R, Gordon C, Melamed Y, Meyer WS. Hyperbaric oxygenation for necrotizing (malignant) otitis externa. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1989;115:1470-5.
17. Gold S, Som PM, Lucente FE, Lawson W, Mendelsohn M, Parisient SC. Radiographic findings in progressive necrotizing "malignant" external otitis. Laryngoscope 1984;94:363-6.
18. Soudry E, Joshua BZ, Sulkes J, Nageris B. Characteristics and prognosis of malignant external otitis with facial paralysis. Arch Otol Head Neck Surg 2007;133:1002-4.
19. Davis JC, Gates GA, Lerner C, Davis MG, Mader JT, Dinesman A. Adjuvant hyperbaric oxygen in malignant external otitis. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1992;118:89-93.
20. Mader JT, Love JT. Malignant external otitis. Cure with adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Arch Otolaryngol 1982;108:38-40.