Foreign bodies in the external auditory canal can be various objects (bones, seeds, small balls, beads, leaves, batteries, parts of hygiene sticks, etc.), as well as insects (flies, cockroaches, bugs).
Cerumen plug is a buildup of earwax in the external auditory canal, obturating its lumen; observed with hypersecretion of the cerumen glands. Earwax is a mixture of secretions from the sebaceous glands located superficially, as well as the cerumen and apocrine glands located deeper in the skin of the external auditory canal.
In everyday practice, a doctor of any specialty no more often than not has to deal with congenital anomalies in the development of certain organs. Both functional and cosmetic aspects require attention.
Among the sarcomas of the maxilla are osteogenic sarcoma, chondrosarcoma, malignant fibrous histiocytomas, Ewing's sarcoma and a number of rarer tumors.
Trauma of the paranasal sinuses (traumatic damage to the paranasal sinuses) is a traumatic injury that usually results in a fracture of the walls of a particular paranasal sinus with or without displacement of bone fragments with the possible formation of a cosmetic, functional defect and hemorrhage into the paranasal sinuses.
A nasal fracture is a nasal injury in which the integrity of the bony pyramid of the nose is disrupted, with or without displacement of the bone fragments.
Cancer of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses occurs more often in men. Among the reasons influencing the frequency of cancer in this area, professional factors also play a role.
The most common forms of cancer are squamous cell cancers of the maxillary sinus, which account for 80-90% of malignant neoplasms of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses.
