ventilation tube
Ventilation Tube With Small Crust
Note the golden yellow crust of dried serous fluid which has accumulated between the outer flange of this ventilation tube and the tympanic membrane. The lumen of the tube's patent in the middle ear appears...
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Blue Silastic Ventilation Tube [T-Tube]
A long blue Silastic T-Tube has been placed in this left middle ear.
Stainless Steel Reutter Bobbin Ventilation Tube
A stainless steel Reutter bobbin has been placed in this left tympanic membrane.
Polyethylene Reutter Bobbin
Ventilation tubes are made from a variety of different materials. In this right tympanic membrane a polyethylene Reutter style bobbin has been placed.
Mucoid Otitis Media Draining from VentilationTube
In this patient who has a mucoid otitis media, note the golden yellow mucus draining through the lumen of this stainless steel Reutter bobbin.
Extruding Reutter Bobbin With Serous Crust
This stainless steel Reutter bobbin has been extruded from this left tympanic membrane. During the extrusion, serous fluid has continued to leak from the middle ear and as the fluid dried it produce this...
Discharge from Ventilation Tube
In addition to equalizing air pressure, the lumen in a ventilation tube provides a pathway for discharge of an infection from the middle ear into the external canal. This was the cause of the discharge...
Extruded Ventilation Tube on the External Canal...
Over time, an extruded ventilation tube will be carried out of the ear canal by the normal migratory function of the external canal skin.
Ventilation Tube Blocked
If the central lumen of a ventilation tube becomes blocked then the benefits of equalizing air pressure or allowing drainage from the middle ear ceases.
Stainless Steel Ear Ventilation Tube
A stainless steel ventilation tube can be seen in the antero-inferior quadrant of this right tympanic membrane. The malleus is seen with the leash of blood vessels that run down it, as well as the long...