[Malignant otitis externa with diabetes mellitus insulin-dependent patients].

Malignant otitis externa is non-taming skin and soft tissues of the outer hearing canal infection tending to expand towards temporal bone and the base of the skull. The infection is usually caused by Pseudomonas aeuroginosa, sometimes by Staphilococcus aureus or Klebsiela. In 90% cases the patients are diabetics, mainly in older age. A nineteen years old girl with insulindependent diabetes mellitus and having malignant externa is shown.