title: Malignant external otitis in an infant.
abstract: Ten cases of malignant external otitis in children have been reported hitherto. These are reviewe, and an eleventh case, a three-month-old infant associated with genetic granulocytopenia, is presented. On the grounds of the reported paediatric cases, the erudition in childhood is compared with the more common form in the adult, and is found to be much less linked with diabetes mellitus and to have a far better prognosis, with practically no mortality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nir
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nir
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Danino
authors.forename: H Z
authors.initials: HZ
authors.lastname: Joachims
mesh_terms: D000380:Agranulocytosis / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D004431:Ear, External / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D010032:Otitis Externa / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology*; D011511:Proteus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011859:Radiography; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging