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Ear Pain and Cerumen Impaction

2016
This chapter succinctly summarizes the diagnosis and management of common ear-related complaints encountered by primary care and emergency clinicians alike, including otitis media and otitis externa. Attention is also directed at differentiating these relatively benign entities from more sinister diagnoses such as malignant otitis externa and ...
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Managing cerumen impaction.

Postgraduate medicine, 1977
The external auditory canal is self-cleaning. Excessive cerumen accumulation usually results from misguided attempts to remove wax and may go unnoticed until a hearing loss occurs. Mechanical removal of the wax or use of a ceruminolytic agent to soften it is recommended--irrigation may contaminate the middle ear space.
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Cerumen Impaction: Diagnosis and Management.

American family physician, 2019
Cerumen production is a normal and protective process for the ear canal. However, cerumen should be removed when it causes symptoms (e.g., hearing loss, itching, pain, tinnitus) or prevents assessment of the external auditory canal, the tympanic membrane, or audiovestibular system.
Charlie, Michaudet, John, Malaty
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Procedure Coding: Removal of Impacted Cerumen

AAP Pediatric Coding Newsletter, 2018
Since Current Procedural Terminology® provides separate codes for removal of impacted cerumen with and without instrumentation, we must look at 2 different ways of providing and documenting these services.
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Cerumen Impaction (Earwax)

2019
Jill C. Cash, Kathleen Bradbury-Golas
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Impacted Cerumen as a Reason for Failure in Hearing Conservation Programs

Journal of School Health, 1985
ABSTRACTTo test the hypothesis that children with impacted cerumen experience more hearing or middle ear problems than children with normal cerumen, two serial audiometric screenings including otoscopic examinations, tympanometry, and audiometry were conducted.
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Prevalence of Cerumen Impaction and Associated Factors Among Primary School Pupils at an Urban District in Northern Tanzania

Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, 2023
Zephania Abraham
exaly  

Quality Improvement in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery: Developing Registry‐Enabled Quality Measures From Guidelines for Cerumen Impaction and Allergic Rhinitis Through a Transparent and Systematic Process

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 2022
Jeremy Michel, James Denneny
exaly  

Cerumen Impaction (Earwax)

2020
Jill C. Cash, Ken Watford
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Cerumen impaction was composed of abnormal exfoliation of keratinocytes that was correlated with infection

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery, 2020
Yuejiao Zhang, Shoude Zhang
exaly