Gökharman FD, Şenbil DC, Aydin S, Karavaş E, Özdemir Ö, Yalçın AG, Koşar PN. Chronic otitis media and middle ear variants: Is there relation? World J Clin Cases 2023; 11(15): 3481-3490 [PMID: 37383905 DOI: 10.12998/wjcc.v11.i15.3481]
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Düzgün Can Şenbil, MD, Academic Research, Doctor, Research Assistant, Department of Radiology, Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University, Hacı Ali Akın street, Erzincan 24100, Turkey. senbilcan@gmail.com
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Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
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Retrospective Study
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World J Clin Cases. May 26, 2023; 11(15): 3481-3490 Published online May 26, 2023. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v11.i15.3481
Chronic otitis media and middle ear variants: Is there relation?
Fatma Dilek Gökharman, Düzgün Can Şenbil, Sonay Aydin, Erdal Karavaş, Özge Özdemir, Arzu Gülşah Yalçın, Pınar Nercis Koşar
Fatma Dilek Gökharman, Özge Özdemir, Arzu Gülşah Yalçın, Pınar Nercis Koşar, Department of Radiology, Ankara Training and Research Hospital, Ankara 06230, Turkey
Düzgün Can Şenbil, Sonay Aydin, Department of Radiology, Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University, Erzincan 24100, Turkey
Erdal Karavaş, Department of Radiology, Bandırma 17 Eylül University, Balıkesir 10200, Turkey
Author contributions: Gökharman FD and Şenbil DC conceived the idea for the study; Gökharman FD, Aydin S, Karavaş E, and Özdemir Ö designed and undertook the literature review; Yalçın AG, and Koşar PN collected data; Şenbil DC performed the statistical analysis, figures, and appendix and analyzed and interpreted the data; Gökharman FD and Aydin S wrote the first draft of the manuscript; Karavaş E and Özdemir Ö revised the subsequent drafts of the manuscript; All authors reviewed and agreed on the final draft of the manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University Institutional Review Board, No. KAEK-EBYU-2020-085.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
Data sharing statement: No additional data is available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Düzgün Can Şenbil, MD, Academic Research, Doctor, Research Assistant, Department of Radiology, Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University, Hacı Ali Akın street, Erzincan 24100, Turkey. senbilcan@gmail.com
Received: March 8, 2023 Peer-review started: March 8, 2023 First decision: March 24, 2023 Revised: March 27, 2023 Accepted: April 21, 2023 Article in press: April 21, 2023 Published online: May 26, 2023 Processing time: 77 Days and 20.3 Hours
ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS
Research background
Our article examines the anatomical and variational differences in chronic otitis media (COM) patients.
Research motivation
COM is a multifactorial disease and variants of middle ear have always been important in terms of potential risk for complication during surgery but rarely associated with COM as an etiology or as a consequence of the disease.
Research objectives
The objectives of our research are to determine its relationship with anatomical variations in COM.
Research methods
Our study is a retrospective study. The following conditions were investigated in our study: Koerner's septum (KS), facial canal dehiscence, high jugular bulb, jugular bulb dehiscence, jugular bulb diverticulum, anterior sigmoid sinus, and deep tympanic recesses.
Research results
Only the case group's high jugular bulb and anteriorly located Sigmoid Sinus frequencies were statistically significantly higher than the control groups.
Research conclusions
We discovered no link between COM and KS or facial canal defect. We came to a significant conclusion with the dural venous sinus variants -high jugular bulb, jugular bulb dehiscence, jugular bulb diverticulum, and anteriorly located sigmoid sinus- that have been studied less and frequently associated with inner ear illnesses.
Research perspectives
The relationship between COM and anatomical variations is investigated in our study.
