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Severe audiovestibular loss following ear syringing for wax removal
1Department of Otolaryngology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The Journal of Laryngology and Otology
|June 21, 2001
Abstract:
Syringing of the ear is one of the commonest procedures performed for cleaning cerumen from the external auditory canal. Common complications following syringing are pain, external auditory canal trauma and otitis externa. Hearing and vestibular loss are often mentioned as a complication in descriptions of this technique, but we have not been able to find a reported case of such an occurrence. We report one such a case.