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MIDDLE EAR TRAUMA
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Minor drum trauma secondary to self cleaning attempts. The pars tensa is intact. Observe only.
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A scale of dried blood on the postero-superior pars tensa secondary to a fine penetrating injury. Hearing normal.
Remove the scale once this is lifting off the drum. © Bruce Black MD
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A small anterior drum perforation secondary to a slapping injury to the ear. Hearing is slightly muffled but only
minimally depressed. Observe, should heal in 1-2/12. © Bruce Black MD
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A longitudinal tear in the anterior drum. Ear struck by a ball. No evidence of infection. Avoid water in the EAC, high
probability of spontaneous healing. © Bruce Black MD
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Small perforation in an atrophic area in the posterior pars tensa. Barotrauma effect. No infection, await spontaneous
healing. © Bruce Black MD
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A recent penetrating injury to the right drum. Clean perforation, no evidence of ossicular disruption. Good
prospect of uneventful healing. © Bruce Black MD
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Penetrating injury to the lower drum, 3/7 later. Moist, probable impending infection. Manage with amoxycillin-
clavulanic acid, antibiotic drops. © Bruce Black MD
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Recent severe gouging penetrating injury to the deep EAC and drum. Profuse blood clot previously removed. Observe
closely, active treatment if evidence of infection. © Bruce Black MD
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Acute spiny plant penetrating injury to the right ear. Profound sensori-neural deafness and vertigo due to
stapedial depression into the cochlea. © Bruce Black MD
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Penetrating injury to the anterior pars tensa. Concurrent unrelated old chronic otitis media with a postero-superior
drum defect revealing an intact incudo-stapedial joint. © Bruce Black MD
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A healing past drum perforation. A crust has formed on the intact drum causing an irritating rustling sensation on positive
Valsalva pressure. Relieved by removal of the debris. © Bruce Black MD
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Mild conductive deafness, Rt. Ear, after forcible extraction of a wet finger during a shower. Mild drum crinkling at the
umbo. Hypermobile fractured handle of the malleus. © Bruce Black MD
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20 db conductive deafness felt after vigorously rubbing the ear. Handle of the malleus displaced laterally, hyper-mobile,
minimal drum irregularity at the umbo. Fracture below the lateral process. © Bruce Black MD
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Broken malleus handle secondary to a hairline fracture at 12 o’clock. The incus appears displaced superiorly off the
head of the stapes. Crinkling at the umbo. © Bruce Black MD
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Post-traumatic disruption of the left ossicular chain in the attic, coronal CT. The incudo-malleolar joint has separated,
causing a substantial conductive loss. © Bruce Black MD
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Detail of the previous case, axial view through the attic. Separation of the incus and malleus is seen. Managed with
a malleus-stapes Spanner assembly technique. © Bruce Black MD
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Previous case, view of the normal right side attic showing the normally apposed incus and malleus.
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