Outer Ear Disorders
This condition is also called "swimmer's ear."
What is otitis externa?
There are three common bacterial causes of acute otitis media.
What are Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Moraxella catarrhalis?
This condition presents with vertigo, tinnitus, and sensorineural hearing loss.
What is Meniere's Disease?
This type of hearing loss improves with a hearing aid.
What is conductive hearing loss?
This condition may result from barotrauma during airplane descent.
What is middle ear effusion or TM perforation?
This organism is most responsible for malignant otitis externa in diabetics.
What is Pseudomonas aeruginosa?
Name the hallmark finding in otitis media with effusion.
What is the air-fluid level or bubbles behind the TM?
Brief episodes of vertigo triggered by head movements indicate this condition.
What is Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV)?
This test compares air vs bone conduction.
What is the Rinne Test?
Clear otorrhea after trauma suggests this condition.
What is a CSF leak?
This condition results from a firm, dome-shaped lesion on the helix due to sun exposure.
Chronic otitis media with foul-smelling discharge is often due to this complication.
What is Cholesteatoma?
This test diagnoses BPPV.
What is the Dix-Hallpike maneuver?
Sudden sensorineural hearing loss is treated with this medication.
What are high-dose corticosteroids?
This type of tumor arises from the glomus bodies in the middle ear.
What is a glomus tumor (paraganglioma)?
Painful, fluctuant swelling on the ear after trauma is most likely.
What is an auricular hematoma?
This type of hearing loss occurs with otosclerosis.
What is conductive hearing loss?
This viral infection often precedes labyrinthitis.
What is URI?
Prebycusis affects these frequencies first.
What are high frequencies?
What is a glomus jugulare tumor?
This type of carcinoma is most common on the auricle and external auditory canal.
This is the first-line antibiotic for acute otitis media in children.
What is amoxicillin?
This cranial nerve is affected by vestibular schwannoma.
What is CN VIII (vestibulocochlear nerve)?
This congenital infection is a common cause of pediatric sensorineural hearing loss.
What is Cytomegalovirus (CMV)?
This malignancy is strongly associated with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
What is Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)?