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HEMOTYMPANUM:
INTRODUCTION
| Description | : | Hemotympanum is the term applied to the presence of extravasated blood or a blood tinged fluid within the middle ear cavity. A hemotympanum may develop following a temporal bone fracture, barotrauma, or in association with a severe acute otitis media. A transient hemotympanum may also develop following mastoid or acoustic neuroma surgery and in some patients with epistaxis who have had posterior nasal packing inserted. |
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