Open AccessTUBERCULOUS MEDIUM OTITIS: CLINICAL EXAMPLE
Author(s) -
O.N. Barkanova,
С Г Гагарина,
А А Калуженина
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
vestnik volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo medicinskogo universiteta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1994-9499
pISSN - 1994-9480
DOI - 10.19163/1994-9480-2020-4(76)-103-105
Subject(s) - etiology , medicine , tuberculosis , otitis , middle ear , lesion , extrapulmonary tuberculosis , medical history , pulmonary tuberculosis , surgery , dermatology , pathology , mycobacterium tuberculosis
The article describes a rare localization of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in the form of a unilateral lesion of the middle ear in a 47-year-old woman without immunodeficiency, but having a history of pulmonary tuberculosis with residual changes. Sluggish middle purulent otitis media in the patient for 1.5 years was regarded as nonspecific, and only surgical intervention with histological examination of the surgical material made it possible to establish a tuberculous etiology of the process