Chronic suppurative otitis media in adults

ABSTRACT

The incidence of chronic discharging ear in Egypt is high. It is the every day problem in ENT clinics. In this study chronic suppurative otitis media constitiuted 12.94% of the total examined 2875 adult patients presenting with different ENT problems. Bilateral disease and abnormalities in the contralateral ears are frequent. Repeated follow up of these patients for life is recommended to detect early complication. Nasal and sinus diseases were detected in 70.43% and pharyngeal diseases in 27.4% of patients with chronic discharging ear. Poor eustachean tube function is thus considered the cause of such high incidence of discharging ear