OOSEASES ©F THE EJOTEWIAL EA^
® Cerumen obturans
® External Ear Inflammatory Diseases
® Injury of the External Ear
® Foreign body in the EAC
©Tumors (benign, malignant)
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® Ear wax is produced by gl.ceruminosae in EAC
® Yellow-brown matter with fat particles
® Partially or totally obstruct the EAC
® Hearing loss, tinnitus, inflammation of the EAC
®Th: irrigation by lukewarm water, manual removal, topical oil preparations
OTITIS EITEIMMA DIFFUSA
® Inflammation of the skin and the submucous tissues of the EAC
® Bathing in contaminated or chlorinated water
® Disease of summer months
® Pain, erythema and stricture of the EAC, in severe cases impassability of the EAC, conductive hearing loss,
® Local ATB in unguent or drops, analgetics, in severe cases ATB generally
® Affliction of small skin glands (gl.ceruminosae) or hair follicles of the EAC
® painful
® Erythema and swelling in the cartilaginous part of EAC (folliculitis, furuncle)
®Th: incision, local ATB, in severe cases ATB generally
® Streptococcal infectious disease of skin
® painful, circumscribed erythema
®Th: preferably PNC
® cartilage inflammation
® develops usually after ear injury, or e.g. after insect bite (cave - piercing)
® abscess formation may occure
® it can lead to destruction of cartilage with permanent deformation of the auricle
®Th: ATB generally, punction, incision, drainage, remove destroyed cartilage
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©Auricle injury
Open: revise, desinfection, suture in LA/GA, ATB prevention
Closed: othematoma Frostbite, burns ® EAC injury
Most frequently during personal hygiene
In pyramid fractures (cave otoliquorrhoea)
® Blunt injury (combat sports)
©Collection of blood between perichondrium and cartilage
® Risk of perichondritis
auriculae ®Th: Early punction,
incision, ATB
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® Organic: legume, plants, insect ©Anorganic: cotton, small part of toy, bead
® Hemangioma ® Dermoid cyst ® Neurofibroma ® Sebaceous cyst ® Exostosis
® Congenital: choristoma, hamartoma, teratoma
® Basal-cell carcinoma (BCC) ® Spinocellular carcinoma (SCC) ©Malignant melanoma