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ENTCholesteatoma and Chronic Otitis Media

Tubercular otitis media: diagnostic overlap with suppurative disease

THE CONTEXT
Secondary infection can obscure the clinical distinction between tubercular otitis media and chronic suppurative otitis media.

Effect of secondary infection

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In the presence of secondary pyogenic infection, tubercular otitis media may be indistinguishable from chronic suppurative otitis media.
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