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Report of an Unusual Case

COL. BYRON G. McKIBBEN; CAPT. JAMES L. SHEEHY, MC

AMA Arch Otolaryngol. 1956;63(3):286-289.

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TUBERCULOSIS of the middle ear is not common. It is, however, the second most frequent disease of tuberculous etiology seen by the otolaryngologist and should be suspected in any tuberculous person who develops painless otitis media.¹ Tuberculous infection of the nose and nasal fossae has been said to be the rarest form of localized tuberculosis.² The finding of both of these conditions in a healthy, young adult appears to be extremely rare and prompted us to report this case.

REPORT OF CASE

A 28-year-old Negro woman, in her ninth month of pregnancy, was admitted to Letterman Army Hospital, on Nov. 24, 1953, because of facial palsy associated with otitis media.

One month prior to admission, a sensation of fullness, without pain, accompanied by deafness and intermittent tinnitus, developed in the left ear. Penicillin was prescribed initially. Later the treatment was changed to oxytetracycline (Terramycin) and finally to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
U. S. Army

From the Otolaryngology Service, Department of Surgery, Letterman Army Hospital, San Francisco.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Nov. 17, 1955.

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