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Darier´s disease as an unusual risk factor for otitis externa: A case report

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Otolaryngology including ear, nose and throat diseases

Abstract

Background: Darier´s disease is known for affecting seborrheic areas of the body, including the ear, but no previous case reports describe recurrent otitis externa as a manifestation of this rare disease.
Case presentation: We describe the case of a 70-year-old woman presenting to the Otolaryngology department with bilateral otalgia and pruritus with a 4-day evolution. She complained of recurrent similar episodes for many years requiring treatment. Scaly, pruritic, greasy lesions of the pinna were present and bilateral otitis externa was diagnosed. Inframammary and lower leg involuting lesions were also present. She had been diagnosed with Darier´s disease by the age of 16 years reporting frequent flares. Targeted treatment resolved the otologic complaints after 1 week and Dermatology evaluation was advised to pursue systemic medical optimization.
Conclusion: Patients showing chronic otitis externa along with concurrent dermatologic lesions should be referred to the Dermatology clinic so that diagnostic investigation and targeted therapies may be offered.

DOI

10.21608/ejentas.2020.50584.1284

Keywords

Darier´s disease, Recurrent otitis externa, skin condition, ear, Otology, Dermatology

Authors

First Name

Francisco

Last Name

Sousa

MiddleName

Alves de

Affiliation

Departamento de Neurociências, Serviço de Otorrinolaringologia e Cirurgia Cérvico-Facial, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Email

franciscoalvesousa@gmail.com

City

Porto

Orcid

0000-0003-4113-3259

First Name

Joana

Last Name

Vicente

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Serviço de Otorrinolaringologia e Cirurgia Cérvico-Facial, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Email

joanacardas40@hotmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Sara

Last Name

Azevedo

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Serviço de Otorrinolaringologia e Cirurgia Cérvico-Facial, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Email

saraquelazevedo@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Ana

Last Name

Pinto

MiddleName

Nóbrega

Affiliation

Serviço de Otorrinolaringologia e Cirurgia Cérvico-Facial, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portuga

Email

ananobregapinto@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Cecília

Last Name

Sousa

MiddleName

Almeida

Affiliation

Diretora do Serviço de Otorrinolaringologia e Cirurgia Cérvico-Facial, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portuga

Email

director.orl@hgsa.min-saude.pt

City

Porto

Orcid

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Volume

22

Article Issue

22

Related Issue

25028

Issue Date

2021-01-01

Receive Date

2020-11-21

Publish Date

2021-01-01

Page Start

1

Page End

3

Print ISSN

2090-0740

Online ISSN

2090-3405

Article File

EJENTAS_Volume 22_Issue 22_Pages 1-3.pdf

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https://ejentas.journals.ekb.eg/article_130317.html

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32

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Case report

Type Code

473

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Ear, Nose, Throat and Allied Sciences

Publication Link

https://ejentas.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Darier´s disease as an unusual risk factor for otitis externa: A case report

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Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023