Re: Advice for a Newby with an Ear Infection - Arun

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Actually the cancer threat wasn't for my ear, they thought I had bone cancer. They did both a bone biopsy and a bone marrow biopsy before concluding I didn't have cancer. This is why I say that CT scans sometimes pick up things that aren't there. A lot depends on how they are interpreted, of course.Ray

From: Benny Klingsporn <BKLINGSPORN@ COMCAST.NET>

Subject: RE: Advice for a Newby with an Ear Infectioncholesteatoma

Date: Monday, December 1, 2008, 6:15 PM

Hi Ray,

For what it's worth here's my info, I have had a CT scan and the radiologist report thought c'toma. My ENT referred me to a partner who is an otolaryngologist and a Neurotologist , Dr Chang. He is the director of the Texas Ear Center and he thinks what I have may be fluid, and not a c'toma. He won't know until he gets in there on Wed. 12/3. So that being said the CT is a valuable tool but it may not be the definitive answer that you are looking for. Did your doctor do a culture of your fluid?? After 2 rounds of levaquin and a round of heavy duty augmentin my ENT did one and found my infection was a kind of staph infection and then prescribed bactrim, which seemed to do the trick. I'll keep you posted to let you know if it was just fluid or a

c'toma.

Good Luck,

Donah K

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