This paper is the result of a literature review since the beginning of the 20th century about Tuberculous Otitis Media (TOM). It includes historic, epidemiologic, physiopatologic, clinical, diagnostic and treatment aspects, emphasizing their evolution throughout time considering the several modifications of the population and medicine. It also reinforces the predominance of extrapulmonary forms of tuberculosis, as TOM, in HIV infected patients, which, in present times, is of great interest.
ear; otitis; tuberculosis; extrapulmonary; otorhinolaryngologic
