tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học:" Bilateral spontaneous hemotympanum: Case report"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Bilateral spontaneous hemotympanum: Case report | Head Face Medicine BioMed Central Open Access Case report Bilateral spontaneous hemotympanum Case report Dimitrios G Balatsouras 1 Panayotis Dimitropoulos1 Alexandros Fassolis1 Georgios Kloutsos1 Nicolas C Economou1 Stavros Korres2 and Antonis Kaberos1 Address Department of Otolaryngology Tzanion General Hospital 1 Afentouli Zanni Piraeus Greece and - Department of Otolaryngology Athens National University Hippokration Hospital 114 Vas. Sofias Av. Athens Greece Email Dimitrios G Balatsouras - balats@ Panayotis Dimitropoulos - pdimitropoulos@ Alexandras Fassolis - fassolis_alexandros@ Georgios Kloutsos - kloutsos@ Nicolas C Economou - neconomou@ Stavros Korres - skorres@ Antonis Kaberos - akaberos@ Corresponding author Published 04 October 2006 Received 16 February 2006 Head Face Medicine 2006 2 31 doi 1746-160X-2-31 Accepted 04 October 2006 This article is available from http content 2 1 31 2006 Balatsouras et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Background The most common causes of hemotympanum are therapeutic nasal packing epistaxis blood disorders and blunt trauma to the head. Hemotympanum is characterized as idiopathic when it is detected in the presence of chronic otitis media. A rare case of spontaneous bilateral hemotympanum in a patient treated with anticoagulants is presented herein. Case presentation A 72-year-old male presented with acute deterioration of hearing. In the patient s medical history aortic valve replacement 1 year before presentation was reported. Since then he had been administered .