Middle Ear

Otitis media is inflammation or infection of the middle ear, the air filled space behind the eardrum. Acute otitis media causes ea...

A cholesteatoma is an abnormal growth of skin cells, keratinizing squamous epithelium, in the middle ear and mastoid. It is not a ...

Otosclerosis is abnormal bone remodelling in the otic capsule, the dense bone surrounding the inner ear. Most often the new bone f...

Ear barotrauma is injury caused by a difference in pressure between the middle ear and the surrounding environment. It occurs when...

The Eustachian tube connects the middle ear to the back of the nose. It normally stays closed and opens briefly during swallowing ...

A perforated eardrum is a hole in the thin membrane that separates the ear canal from the middle ear. Common causes are middle ear...

Otitis media with effusion, widely known as glue ear, is a build up of fluid in the middle ear without the pain and fever of an ac...

Mastoiditis is an infection of the air cells of the mastoid bone, the honeycombed bone behind the ear that connects to the middle ...

In patulous Eustachian tube dysfunction the tube connecting the middle ear and the back of the nose stays open instead of remainin...

Tympanosclerosis is the formation of hardened, chalky white plaques of scar tissue in the eardrum or the middle ear. It typically ...