Correction: Epidemiology and risk factors for extension of necrotizing otitis externa

Necrotizing otitis externa (OEN) is an aggressive and morbid infection of the external acoustic meatus. What are the risk factors for OEN extension? French monocentric retrospective study (2004–2021), including patients with OEN defined by the association of an inflamed EAM, a positive nuclear imaging, the presence of a bacteriological sample and the failure of a well-followed local and/or general antibiotic treatment. OEN was extensive if it was associated with vascular or neurological deficits, if nuclear imaging fixation and/or bone lysis extended beyond the tympanic bone. Our population (n = 39) was male (74