Bone Scanning in Severe External Otitis
- 1 November 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The Laryngoscope
- Vol. 96 (11), 1193-1195
- https://doi.org/10.1002/lary.1986.96.11.1193
Abstract
“” Technetium99Methylene Diphosphate bone scanning has been considered an early valuable tool to diagnose necrotizing progressive “malignant” external otitis. However, to our knowledge, no formal studies have actually compared bone scans of otherwise young, healthy patients with severe external otitis to scans of patients with clinical presentation of malignant external otitis. Twelve patients with only severe external otitis were studied with Technetium99 Diphosphate and were compared to known cases of malignant otitis. All scans were evaluated by two neuroradiologists with no prior knowledge of the clinical status of the patients. Nine of the 12 patients had positive bone scans with many scans resembling those reported with “malignant” external otitis. Interestingly, there was no consistent correlation between the severity of clinical presentation and the amount of Technetium uptake. These findings suggest that a positive bone scan alone should not be interpreted as indicative of “malignant” external otitis.Keywords
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