2026 Exam Questions and
Correct Answers | New Update
Otalgia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔* Ear Pain
* Two types
1. Primary Otalgia
2. Referred Otalgia
Primary Otalgia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Typically caused by:
,* Otitis Externa
* Otitis Media
* Mastoiditis
* Auricular Infections
Differential Diagnosis for Otalgia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔* Otitis Externa
* Otitis Media
* Otitis Media with Effusion
* Eustachion Tube dysfunction
* Barotrauma
* Cerumen Impaction
* Dental Disease
* TMJ Joint dysfunction
* Perforated Tympanic Membrane
* Sunus Disease
* Cervical Lymphadenopathy
Differential Diagnosis for Hearing Loss - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔* Presbycusis
,* Noise Exposure
* Eustachian tube dysfunction
* Cerumen Impaction
* Chronic Middle Ear infection, Effusion
* Otosclerosis
* Tympanosclerosis
* Cholesteatoma
* Trauma
* Congenital disorders
Tinnitus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a ringing, buzzing, or roaring sound in one or
both ears
Differential Diagnosis for Tinnitus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔* Otologic : Hearing
loss, Meniere's disease, Acoustic Neuroma
* Ototoxic medications or substances
* Neurologic: Multiple sclerosis, head injury
* Metabolic: thyrooid disorder, Hperlipidemia, vitamin b12 deficiency
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, * Pychogenic: depression, anxiety, fibromyalgia
Differential DX Mouth Sores - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔* Food or Drug allergies
* Chemical irritation
* Dry Mouth
* Mechanical or thermal injury
* Infectious (Bacterial/Fungal)
* Host Immunosuppression
* Nutritional Deficiency
Pharyngitis (Sore throat) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔inflammation or infection of the
pharynx
Differential Dx Pharyngitis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔* Streptococcal Infections
* Tonsillitis
* HSV Infection
* Gonococcus
* Candidiasis
* Aphthous ulceration