N. Belhaj, R. Bencheikh, M. A. Benbouzid, L. Houssayni, Essakalli Essakalli
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Abstract
Tuberculosis of the ear is rare; we report the case of an 86-year-old patient, followed for a dragging otitis resistant to local and general treatment whose clinical picture mimicked malignant extern otitis but during the biopsy of the polyp of the external auditory canal revived the diagnosis.