Mastoiditis (empyema of the mastoid process) is a destructive osteo-periostitis of the cellular structure of the mastoid process. Mastoiditis predominantly develops against the background of acute purulent otitis media, much less often - with exacerbation of chronic purulent otitis media.
Chronic suppurative otitis media is a serious disease with a bacterial infection in the middle ear. As a rule, this is a consequence of untreated acute otitis media, especially in the first 5 years of a child's life, when the resulting post-inflammatory changes in the mucosa and middle ear structures contribute to the chronization of the process.
Acute otitis media is an acute inflammatory disease characterized by the involvement of the muzzle of the middle ear (auditory tube, drum cavity, cave and airway cells of the mastoid process) into the pathological process.
The average otitis (secretory or nonnegative otitis media) is otitis, in which the mucous membranes of the middle ear cavities are affected. Exudative otitis media is characterized by the presence of exudate and hearing loss in the absence of pain syndrome, with a preserved eardrum.
Otomycosis (fungal infection of the ear, fungal otitis) is a fungal disease in which mold yeast-like fungi develop on the skin of the auricle, the walls of the ear canal, the eardrum, the tympanic cavity and the postoperative cavity of the middle ear.
Otitis externa - inflammation of the external auditory canal due to changes in normal flora or trauma of the soft tissues of the auditory canal with subsequent infection and inflammation, as well as damage to the auricle
Foreign bodies of the external auditory canal can be various objects (bones, seeds, small balls, beads, leaves, batteries, parts of hygienic sticks, etc.), and insects (flies, cockroaches, bugs).
A sulfur plug is an accumulation of earwax in the external auditory canal, which reflects its lumen; Observe with hypersecretion of sulfur glands. Earwax is a mixture of the secretion of sebaceous glands located superficially, as well as sulfuric and apocrine glands located deeper in the skin of the external auditory canal.
In everyday practice, the doctor of any specialty is not more often confronted with congenital anomalies in the development of certain organs. Attention requires both functional and cosmetic aspects.