Eosinophilic Otitis Media 3 Cases Discovered with Recurrent and Sticky Otorrhea after Ventilation Tube Insertion

We studied three patients in whom otorrhea occurred without bacterial infection following ventilation tube (VT) insertion. These patients took oral steroids since the conventional therapy was not effective; however, the oral steroids produced temporal effect since sticky otorrhea occurred when the oral steroids were stopped. We collected ear discharge from each patient and consulted the pathologist about histopathologic findings of it. We identified the predominant eosinophilic infiltration at specimen. We tried to relate this type of otitis media with eosinophilic otitis media (EOM) and treated the patients with intratympanic steroid injection.� Korean J Otorhinolaryngol-Head Neck Surg 2011;54:497-500