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Chronic purulent otitis media

MedGen UID:
543356
•Concept ID:
C0271454
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Disease or Syndrome
Synonyms: Chronic otitis media with effusion, purulent; chronic purulent otitis media; Chronic secretory otitis media, purulent; Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media; Chronic suppurative otitis media; chronic suppurative otitis Media; chronic suppurative otitis media; CSOM; CSOM - Chronic suppurative otitis media; suppurative otitis media, chronic
SNOMED CT: Chronic otitis media with effusion, purulent (38394007); CSOM - Chronic suppurative otitis media (38394007); Chronic secretory otitis media, purulent (38394007); Chronic purulent otitis media (38394007); Chronic suppurative otitis media (38394007)
 
Monarch Initiative: MONDO:0001920

Definition

Otitis media that persists for at least six weeks, and that is associated with otorrhea through a perforated tympanic membrane. [from NCI]

Professional guidelines

PubMed

Panel 7: Otitis Media: Treatment and Complications.
Schilder AG, Marom T, Bhutta MF, Casselbrant ML, Coates H, Gisselsson-Solén M, Hall AJ, Marchisio P, Ruohola A, Venekamp RP, Mandel EM
Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2017 Apr;156(4_suppl):S88-S105. doi: 10.1177/0194599816633697. PMID: 28372534
Current concepts in the pathogenesis and treatment of chronic suppurative otitis media.
Mittal R, Lisi CV, Gerring R, Mittal J, Mathee K, Narasimhan G, Azad RK, Yao Q, Grati M, Yan D, Eshraghi AA, Angeli SI, Telischi FF, Liu XZ
J Med Microbiol 2015 Oct;64(10):1103-1116. Epub 2015 Aug 5 doi: 10.1099/jmm.0.000155. PMID: 26248613Free PMC Article
Evidence-based management of otitis media: a 5S model approach.
Wasson JD, Yung MW
J Laryngol Otol 2015 Feb;129(2):112-9. Epub 2015 Jan 28 doi: 10.1017/S0022215114003363. PMID: 25627708

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Etiology

Chronic purulent otitis media: the prevailing pathology form among northern nationalities.
Sitnikov VP
Arctic Med Res 1991;Suppl:652. PMID: 1365253
Housing standards, social group, and respiratory infections in children of Upernavik, Greenland.
Bjerregaard P
Scand J Soc Med 1983;11(3):107-11. PMID: 6669974

Diagnosis

Actinomycosis of the middle ear.
Böör A, Jurkovic I, Friedmann I, Benický M, Dudriková K, Krajcár R
J Laryngol Otol 1998 Aug;112(8):800-1. doi: 10.1017/s0022215100141751. PMID: 9850332
Chronic purulent otitis media: the prevailing pathology form among northern nationalities.
Sitnikov VP
Arctic Med Res 1991;Suppl:652. PMID: 1365253

Therapy

Actinomycosis of the middle ear.
Böör A, Jurkovic I, Friedmann I, Benický M, Dudriková K, Krajcár R
J Laryngol Otol 1998 Aug;112(8):800-1. doi: 10.1017/s0022215100141751. PMID: 9850332

Prognosis

Modified technic of plastic procedure in radical mastoidectomy; report of results in a case of circumscribed labyrinthitis and periphlebitis of the lateral sinus in the course of chronic purulent otitis media with cholesteatoma.
DWORETZKY W
Arch Otolaryngol (1925) 1949 Dec;50(6):821-6, illust. doi: 10.1001/archotol.1949.00700010836015. PMID: 15394995

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