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OtorrheaAka: 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
- Shohet (1998) Postgrad Med 104:50
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| Definition (NCI) | Discharge or drainage of fluid from the ear. |
| Concepts | Finding (T033)
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| ICD9 | 388.6, 388.60 |
| Danish | oreflad/vaesken fra ore |
| Dutch | Afscheiding uit oor |
| English | Discharge from ear, Discharge of ear, Discharging ear, Drainage from external ear canal, Ear discharge, Ear discharge present, Finding of ear discharge, Observation of ear discharge, Otorrhea, Otorrhoea, Unspecified otorrhea, Unspecified otorrhoea |
| Finnish | ERITE KORVASTA |
| French | Ecoulement oreille |
| German | Ausfluss aus dem Ohr |
| Hebrew | hafrasha mehaozen |
| Hungarian | fulfolyas |
| Italian | Secrezione dall'orecchio |
| Norwegian | UTFLOD/VAESKE FRA ORET |
| Portuguese | Secrecao do ouvido |
| Spanish | drenaje desde el conducto auditivo externo, otorrea, presencia de secreción por el oÃdo, presencia de secrecion por el oido, secreción del oÃdo, secrecion del oido, Secrecion por el oido, supuración del oÃdo, supuracion del oido |
| Swedish | SEKRETION FRAN ORA |
| Credits | Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)
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