The malignant external otitis is a rare disease which arises more frequently at the elderly and the diabetics patients. To our knowledge, there are few data and it is not wellc known byclinicians. Nevertheless it exposes to neurological complications potentially serious and crippling.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
53
description of necrotizing external otitis
Hospices Civils de Lyon
Lyon, France
Rate of necrotizing external otitis
description of necrotizing external otitis: patients, profile of the bacterium, medical and chirurgical treatment, rate
Time frame: Outcome is measured at the end of follow-up (usually between 12 and 24 months after antibiotic therapy disruption
Rate of Treatment Failure
Treatment failure is defined by local clinical and/or microbiological relapse; and/or need for additional surgery; death of septic origin. Analyse of risk factor.
Time frame: Outcome is measured at the end of follow-up (usually between 12 and 24 months after antibiotic therapy disruption
Duration of antibiotics
Description of the strategies of antibiotic treatments used (double-agent therapy, monotherapy, duration)
Time frame: Outcome is measured at the end of follow-up (usually between 12 and 24 months after antibiotic therapy disruption
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