Serious complications of unsafe ear disease
FLAME
Reminds why atticoantral disease needs surgery.
Leaves out mastoiditis and lateral sinus thrombosis.
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FLAME. It helps you recall: Serious complications of unsafe ear disease.
Facial palsy
Labyrinthitis
Abscess of the brain
F: Facial palsy; L: Labyrinthitis; A: Abscess of the brain; M: Meningitis; E: Extradural abscess.
It belongs to Complications of cholesteatoma in ENT.
Leaves out mastoiditis and lateral sinus thrombosis.
Reminds why atticoantral disease needs surgery.
Say it aloud, write it from memory tomorrow, then again in a week. Then test yourself on a ENT question about Complications of cholesteatoma.
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