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| Year : 2011 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 165-166 |
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Unexpected cause of malignant otitis externa: A rare case report
Abdulla Al-otaibi, Bandar Mohammed Al-qahtani, Zaid Al-dhawi
Department of ORL, King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Correspondence Address:
Bandar Mohammed Al-qahtani
Department of ORL, King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, P.O.: 155142, Code: 11768
Saudi Arabia
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DOI: 10.4103/0971-7749.94496
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Malignant otitis externa is an uncommon infection affecting the ear canal and temporal bone. The most common causative organism is Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In this article, we report a malignant otitis externa caused by actinomycosis, a case never been reported before in the literature. |
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