[A severe form of external otitis: necrosing diabetic otitis].
Otitis externa are of usual observation in inter-tropical regions. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is responsible generally. But, when immunodeficiency is associated or on diabetic diathesis, such an otitis externa can be extremely dangerous: extensive osteitis of the base of the skull, paralysis of the last pairs of cervical nerves rapidly creeping, built a clinical identity called malignant external otitis, leading to death in 50% of the cases.
D003389:Cranial Nerve Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D003929:Diabetic Neuropathies / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009336:Necrosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D010032:Otitis Externa / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D011552:Pseudomonas Infections / Q000150:complications*
Une forme grave d'otite externe: l'otite nécrosante des diabétiques.