Lazitsh D, Jeshitsh S
Immergency Center--Department for Intensive Endocrinology Care, Institute for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade.
Srp Arh Celok Lek. 1995 Nov-Dec;123(11-12):317-9.
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.