The chronic discharging ear in Nigeria

A study of 386 Nigerian patients with chronic suppurative otitis media is presented. The disease usually starts in early life, even though presentation in hospital may be delayed until adult life. The important aetiological factors were found to be essentially socio-economic. Tubo-tympanic disease d...

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Published in:Journal of laryngology and otology 1984-02, Vol.98 (2), p.113-120
Main Author: Okafor, B. C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Bacterial diseases
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child, Preschool
Cholesteatoma - complications
Chronic Disease
Ear Diseases - complications
Ent and stomatologic bacterial diseases
Female
Human bacterial diseases
Humans
Infant
Infectious diseases
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Nigeria
Otitis Media - epidemiology
Otitis Media, Suppurative - complications
Otitis Media, Suppurative - epidemiology
Otitis Media, Suppurative - microbiology
Pneumology
Pseudomonas - isolation & purification
Respiratory system : syndromes and miscellaneous diseases
Socioeconomic Factors
Tropical medicine
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Summary:A study of 386 Nigerian patients with chronic suppurative otitis media is presented. The disease usually starts in early life, even though presentation in hospital may be delayed until adult life. The important aetiological factors were found to be essentially socio-economic. Tubo-tympanic disease dominates the clinical picture and the rarity of the attic retraction type of chronic ear disease would suggest exceptionally good eustachian function in the population studied, but further study is required in this respect. It is suggested that complicated tympano-plastic procedures are in general inappropriate in the chronic ear population of this study.
ISSN:0022-2151
1748-5460
DOI:10.1017/S0022215100146298