Vol.96 No.10 contentsPRACTICA OTO-RHINO-LARYNGOLOGICA
Vol. 96 No.10 October 2003
Retrospective Study of Ear Fullness
Shinya Takano and Hideki Kurihara
(Tokyo Women's Medical University Daini Hospital)
We examined the causes of ear fullness in 1980 patients.
Most female patients with ear fullness at our hospital were aged from their twenties to sixties and many tubal diseases caused ear fullness.
Among external ear diseases, ear wax and otitis external must often caused ear fullness.
Traumatic perforation of the tympanic membrane often required admission in youths, and tubal diseases were common in females of all ages.
Among middle ear diseases, otitis media with effusion was often seen, while in patients with inner ear diseases, sudden deafness was frequent.
Key words : retrospective study, ear fullness, multivariate analysis