Ear pain

DDx

  • Acute otitis media
  • Otitis externa
  • Chronic otitis media
  • Auditory (eustachian) tube dysfunction
  • Mastoiditis
  • Referred pain: sinusitis, tooth pain, cancer of upper aerodigestive tract
  • Temporomandibular joint syndrome
  • Trauma or barotrauma
  • Foreign body
  • Osteoma
  • Cholesteatoma
  • Ramsay-Hunt syndrome (herpes zoster oticus)
  • Acoustic neuroma
  • Bullous myringitis
  • Glossopharyngeal neuralgia
  • Bruxism

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Last updated: March 5, 2015