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Basal cell carcinoma
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Diagnosis?
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inflammed brachial cleft ear
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brachial cleft in ear
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What is this?
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chondrodermatitis helicis
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cutaneous cyst
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Squamous cell carcinoma
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Tophi
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tympanic membrane
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what is this. take a good look at all labels
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Prebyscusis
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Hearing loss associated with aging >50 yo
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What are the 4 D’s to the the auricle examination?
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Discharge, displacement, discoloration, Deformity
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Upon examination of the ear what does discharge signify?
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Otitis externa, OM with perforation, foreign body.
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Upon examination what can displacement of ear signify?
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Displacement away from the skull can signify mastoiditis, parotiditis, cellulites of the pinna, angioedemmaM
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What is the umbo?
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Where the malleous meets the tympanic membrane.
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Par flaccida
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Above the short processes of the malleous
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Pars Tensa
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Inferior, most of the short process
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What are the malleolar folds?
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They separate the pars flaccids from the tensa
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What is the conductive phase of hearing?
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The first part of hearing as sound goes from external ear to the middle ear
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What is the sensorineural phase
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Second part involves the choclea and nerves
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What us BAER
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Universally used in most American hospitals before infants are discharged
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What type of hearing loss is the most common in the elderly
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Sensorineural hearing loss
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What are some of the clues to basilar skull fx
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Hemotympanum , and other signs of trauma
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What is a preauricular cyst?
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brachial cleft remnants with an overlying surface dimple vulnerable to infection
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In the weber test what does it mean of a the sound/vibrations did not lateralize equally to both ears
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The sound lateralized to the ear that has the damage
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What is the purpose of the rinne test?
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Compares air conduction with bone conduction
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What is a normal finding in the Rinne test?
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AC> BC, 2:1
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What are the signs and symptoms of otitis externa
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Ear cannal inflamed, infected. Pain when auricle is moved, purulent discharge from ear
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How does the tympanic membrane present when there is an otitis media
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Eardrum is red, full loses landmarks and light reflex.
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What is the most common bacterial pathogen of otitis media?
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Strep
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In pediatrics what is the most common OM pathogens
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Strep pneumoniae 45-55%
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What is bolus Myringitis?
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Infections with painful hemorrhagic vesicles on the TM.
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What are the symptoms of bullous myrigitis?
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Earache, blood tinged discharge, hearing conductive loss
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How long does it that for a perforated tympanic membrane to close?
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4-6 weeks
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What is tympanosclerosis?
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A deposition of hyaline material within the layers of the tympanic membrane following ear infections or perforations
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Cutaneous cyst in ear
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Often arises from sebaceous cyst; benign firm sac lies in the dermis. Attached to epidermis but mobile. Can become infected
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Basal cell carcinoma
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Raise nodules; note telangectasia and lustrous surface. Slow growing rarely metastasizes. Ulceration may occur
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Chodrodermatitis helices
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Chronic inflammatory lesion start as painful, tender papules on helix or antehelix. Must differentiate btw this and carcinoma
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tophi
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Deposits of uric acid characteristics of topaceous gout; hard nodules in the helix or antihelix. Discharge chalky white
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