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==Overview==
==Overview==
Instead of the [[infection]] and eardrum perforation resolving, however, drainage from the middle ear can become a chronic condition. As long as there is active middle ear infection, the eardrum will not heal. The World Health Organization defines [[Chronic Serous Otitis Media]] (CSOM) as 'a stage of ear disease in which there is chronic infection of the middle ear cleft, a non-intact [[tympanic membrane]] (i.e. perforated eardrum) and discharge (otorrhoea), for at least the preceding two weeks' (WHO 1998). (Notice WHO's use of the term "serous" to denote a bacterial process, whereas the same term is generally used by ear physicians in the United States to denote simple fluid collection within the middle ear behind an intact eardrum. "[[Otitis media|Chronic otitis media]]" is the term used by most ear physicians worldwide to describe a chronically infected middle ear with eardrum perforation.)
Instead of the [[infection]] and eardrum perforation resolving, however, drainage from the middle ear can become a chronic condition. As long as there is active middle ear infection, the eardrum will not heal.
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Instead of the infection and eardrum perforation resolving, however, drainage from the middle ear can become a chronic condition. As long as there is active middle ear infection, the eardrum will not heal.

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