TACTICAL APPROACHES TO THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF CHRONIC SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA

Abstract

Chronic inflammation of the middle ear, despite significant progress in
prevention, diagnosis and treatment, remains one of the most common and dangerous
childhood diseases. This is due to many medical and social reasons, as well as such
adverse effects as hearing loss and the risk of intracranial complications caused by
exacerbations of a chronic process in the middle ear. The modern definition of chronic
purulent otitis media (CPOM), summarizing the main features of this disease, was given
by V.T Palchun et al . [one]. CPOM is a chronic purulent inflammation of the middle ear,
which occurs with persistent perforation of the tympanic membrane, persistent or
recurrent suppuration from the ear, and hearing loss of varying degrees, gradually
progressing with a long course of the disease [1, 2] .