BOSTON - APRIL 15: Two explosions went off near the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. (Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) With over 200,000 cases a ...

In the weeks that followed the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, doctors saw a flood of patients with a common injury: a ruptured eardrum. Ruptured eardrums aren’t rare — patients with chronic ear ...

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It's the bane of rock stars, concertgoers, soldiers on the front lines and folks who insist on using cotton swabs: a ruptured eardrum. Painful and time-consuming, eardrum repairs often require surgery ...

Holes (perforations) that develop in the eardrum (tympanic membrane) occur fairly commonly for various reasons. We see them quite often in our practice, and sometimes, we even cause them. A patient ...

Myringosclerosis is a common condition affecting the tympanic membrane or eardrum that can occur in response to infection or trauma. A person with this condition may not always have symptoms.