title: Eosinophilic otitis media: CT and MRI findings and literature review.
abstract: Eosinophilic otitis media (EOM) is a relatively rare, intractable, middle ear disease with extremely viscous mucoid effusion containing eosinophils. EOM is associated with adult bronchial asthma and nasal allergies. Conventional treatments for otitis media with effusion (OME) or for chronic otitis media (COM), like tympanoplasty or mastoidectomy, when performed for the treatment of EOM, can induce severe complications such as deafness. Therefore, it should be differentiated from the usual type of OME or COM. To our knowledge, the clinical and imaging findings of EOM of temporal bone are not well-known to radiologists. We report here the CT and MRI findings of two EOM cases and review the clinical and histopathologic findings of this recently described disease entity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology and Research Institute of Radiology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 138-736, Korea.
authors.forename: Won Jung
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: Jeong Hyun
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Hyun Kyung
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Tae Hyun
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Yoon
authors.forename: Kyung Ja
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Jung Hwan
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Baek
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004802:Eosinophilia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010033:Otitis Media / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D038781:Otoscopy; D012086:Reoperation; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed