Otomycosis and perforated tympanic membrane. Two cases

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Samanta Ruz G.
Hayo Breinbauer K.
Claudia Corssen J.

Keywords

Otomycosis, Tympanic perforation

Abstract

External otitis constitutes among 5%-30% of urgency ORL consultations and affects 10% of the population at least 1 time in their life. Most of them had a bacterial origin, only 15% to 20% are attributed to fungi. Otomycosis complications are slightly frequent reaching 10% to 20% of the cases according to diferent series, being the tympanic perforation the most frequent. We present 2 cases, their evolution and treatment.

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