A study on clinical profile of patients with CSOM attending tertiary care hospital

Abstract

Chronic Otitis Media (COM) is defined as a permanent abnormality of the pars tensa or flaccid most likely a result of earlier acute otitis media, negative middle ear pressure or otitis media with effusion. COM equates with the classic term Chronic ‘Suppurative’ Otitis Media that is no longer advocated as COM is not necessarily a result of ‘the gathering of pus’. CSOM patients who were planned for surgical management underwent HRCT temoral bone scan before surgery. Intra operative findings of middle ear cleft in such patients was noted and compared with the pre-operative HRCT temporal bone scan findings. More number of patients belong to age group 10 -19 years (34%) followed by 20-29 years (30%) and 30- 39 years (25%). Nearly 12% of study subjects were aged more than 40 years. There were 89 (49.4%) males and 91(50.5%) females in the study population. 113 patients had unilateral CSOM and 67 patients
had bilateral CSOM disease.