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Otorrhea
Aka: Otorrhea, Ear Drainage
- Definition
- Otorrhea is Ear Drainage
- Causes
- Acute Otorrhea (6 weeks duration or less)
- Acute Otitis Media with Tympanic Membrane Perforation
- Otitis Externa
- Tympanostomy Tube placement complication
- Chronic Otorrhea (Lasting longer than 6 weeks duration)
- Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media (most common)
- Cholesteatoma
- Ear Foreign Body
- Granuloma
- Immunodeficiency
- Neoplasm
- Discharge characteristics: Infectious Causes
- Otitis Externa
- Acute Bacterial Otitis Externa
- Scant white mucus (may be thick)
- Chronic Bacterial Otitis Externa
- Bloody discharge with granulation tissue
- Fungal Otitis Externa (Otomycosis)
- Fluffy discharge
- Color: white, black, gray, blue-green or yellow
- Otitis Media with perforated Tympanic Membrane
- Acute Otitis Media
- Purulent white to yellow mucus discharge
- Associated with deep pain
- Serous Otitis Media
- Clear mucus
- Associated with Allergic Rhinitis
- Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media
- Purulent mucus on intermittent drainage
- Not associated with pain
- Miscellaneous Causes
- Cerebrospinal fluid leakage: clear watery discharge
- Trauma: Bloody mucus
- Osteomyelitis: Foul ear discharge
- References
- Sabella (2000) Pediatr Infect Dis J 19:1007-8 [PubMed]
- Shohet (1998) Postgrad Med 104:50-60 [PubMed]