Malignant external otitis: Analysis of severe cases

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 758-762

  Soudry, Ethan ^a,b   Hamzany, Yaniv ^a,b   Preis, Michal ^a,b   Joshua, Benzion ^a   Hadar, Tuvia ^a,b   Nageris, Ben I ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Malignant external otitis; Persistent; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTERNAL OTITIS; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT EXTERNAL OTITIS; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; CLASSIFICATION; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTITIS EXTERNA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 80051742960     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0194599810396132     Document Type: Article

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