Diseases of the Ear — Flashcards

Flashcard 71: _____ is indicated only when there is an impending rupture of tympanic membrane.

Answer: Myringotomy

Flashcard 72: Once the TM is breached, glomus tumor may present as _____ in the external ear

Answer: bleeding polyp

Flashcard 73: The lighthouse sign is seen in:

Answer: Acute Suppurative Otitis Media (ASOM)

Extra: The lighthouse sign is a pulsatile ear discharge seen through a small perforation in the tympanic membrane during the suppurative stage of ASOM. Note: Do not confuse this with the 'Reservoir sign', which is seen in Mastoiditis (where the ear canal fills rapidly with pus after being mopped dry).

Flashcard 74: Mixed aerobic and anaerobic infection is seen in _____ type of CSOM

Answer: tubotympanic

Flashcard 75: The narrowest part of the EAC is also called as the _____

Answer: isthmus

Flashcard 76: _____ is a patient with a discontinuous ossicular chain but the sound is conducted through the cholesteatoma to the footplate

Answer: Cholesteatoma hearer

Flashcard 77: In an abnormally patent and patulous eustachean tube, patients primary complaints are hearing his own voice & breathing sounds, a condition also known as _____

Answer: Autophony

Flashcard 78: Red reflex through the intact tympanic membrane on otoscopy is seen in intratympanic _____

Answer: glomus tumor

Flashcard 79: The name glue ear tympanic membrane is often dull and opaque with loss of light reflex, seen in _____

Answer: SOM

Flashcard 80: _____ abscess, can occur as a complication of mastoiditis, which forms when infection spreads from the middle ear into the subperiosteal temporal region

Answer: Luc's