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Otalgia or ear pain may be due to primary ear-related causes or due to referred pain from neighboring structures in the head and neck. If the physician cannot find any evidence of any pathology in the ear that can be causing the pain, he or she should look for pathologies in the distribution areas of the fifth, seventh, ninth, and tenth cranial nerves, which have sensory fibers in some areas of the auricle, the external canal, and the tympanum. The second and third cervical nerves may also be responsible for the referred pain. Dental disease and temporomandibular joint pathologies should always be kept in mind in otalgia patients.
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Önerci, T.M. (2009). Otalgia. In: Diagnosis in Otorhinolaryngology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00499-5_11
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