| Literature DB >> 8233503 |
P V Driscoll1, A Ramachandrula, D A Drezner, T A Hicks, S R Schaffer.
Abstract
Malignant externa otitis is a potentially fatal disease in diabetic and other immunocompromised patients. Cerumen contains defense properties that protect the patient against infection. We tested the hypothesis that patients with diabetes mellitus have abnormalities in their cerumen that affect the environment of their external auditory canals and may predispose them to malignant externa otitis.Entities:
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Year: 1993 PMID： 8233503 DOI： 10.1177/019459989310900407
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg ISSN： 0194-5998 Impact factor: 3.497