title: [Diagnosis and therapy of the so-called malignant external otitis (author's transl)].
abstract: The malignant external otitis is characterized by the following symptoms: Severe neuralgic pain in the deep ear region is found in the elderly diabe-the cases with a facial palsy due to the infection of the outer ear. In more than 50 percent of the cases with a facial palsy due to the infection the further course was letal (Chandler 1968). A new surgical treatment of the malignant external otitis (Naumann 1977) is presented: After the adequate excision of all infected tissue and cartilage a perforated polyethylen-tube is placed into the infected area along the base of the skull. The combined therapy of a parenteral and local administration of antibiotics helps to improve the bad prognosis of the malignant external otitis.
mesh_terms: D048909:Diabetes Complications; D004322:Drainage; D005158:Facial Paralysis / Q000209:etiology; D005839:Gentamicins / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D009437:Neuralgia / Q000209:etiology; D010032:Otitis Externa / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D011379:Prognosis; D011552:Pseudomonas Infections / Q000150:complications
chemical_list: D005839:Gentamicins
vernacular_title: Zur Diagnostik und Therapie der sog. malignen Otitis externa.