Malignant Otitis Externa and Temporal Bone Osteomyelitis: Complete Recovery Following the Adjunctive use of Hyperbaric Oxygen and Antibiotics

Authors

Deepa Bhargava, Department of Surgery (Otolaryngology), College of Medicine, Sultan Qaboos University, P.O.Box 35, Al-Khod 123, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
Chris Waite, Wudam Naval Base, Royal Oman Navy
Samir S. Hussein, Department of Radioloy, College of Medicine, Sultan Qaboos University, P.O.Box 35, Al-Khod 123, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
Dilip Sankhla, Department of Radioloy, College of Medicine, Sultan Qaboos University, P.O.Box 35, Al-Khod 123, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
Hussein Sir El Khatim, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine , Sultan Qaboos University, P.O.Box 35 , Al-Khod 123, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
Nicholas J.Y. Woodhouse, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine , Sultan Qaboos University, P.O.Box 35 , Al-Khod 123, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

Abstract

Malignant otitis externas is an uncommon potentially fatal infectien ef the external ear caused by Pseudomona aeruginosa. It occurs usually in elderly diabetics and is followed by rapid invasion of the deep perisuricular tissue and bone leading to osteomyelitis. We Present such a patient whose disease persisted inspite of twe months antibiotic therapy until the concomitant of hyperbaric oxygen therapy was given over a period ef four weeks. Cemplete recovery followed.

Publication Date

1-31-1999

First Page

47

Last Page

50

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Recommended Citation

Bhargava, Deepa; Waite, Chris; Hussein, Samir S.; Sankhla, Dilip; Khatim, Hussein Sir El; and Woodhouse, Nicholas J.Y. (1999) "Malignant Otitis Externa and Temporal Bone Osteomyelitis: Complete Recovery Following the Adjunctive use of Hyperbaric Oxygen and Antibiotics," Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal: Vol. 1: 47-50.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18295/2075-0528.1148