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Otorrhea causes
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Common causes of otorrhea include infectious, malignant, and trauma-related aural conditions.
Causes
Causes
- Cerebrospinal fluid otorrhea
- Cholesteatoma
- Foreign body
- Malignant otitis externa
- Mastoiditis
- Otitis media with perforated tympanic membrane
- Otitis externa
Causes by Organ System
Causes in Alphabetical Order
- Actinomyces
- Adenoidal hypertrophy
- Aspergillus
- Aural polyps
- Basilar skull fracture
- Candida albicans
- Cerebrospinal fluid otorrhea
- Cholesteatoma
- Chronic otitis media
- Contaminated water
- Dermatitis of the external canal
- Epidural abscess
- Foreign body
- Granulation tissue
- Haemophilus influenzae
- Immunodeficiency
- Infectious eczematoid dermatitis
- Infectious myringitis
- Malignant otitis externa
- Malignant tumor
- Mastoiditis
- Moraxella catarrhalis
- Myringitis
- Occult cholesteatoma
- Otitis externa
- Otitis media with perforated tympanic membrane
- Prolonged topical antimicrobial use
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Skull fracture
- Streptococcus pneumoniae
- Trauma
- Tuberculosis
- Tympanic membrane rupture
References
References
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Luke Rusowicz-Orazem, B.S. Kiran Singh, M.D. [2]