Born in the Ear Canal: Tick Larva on the Eardrum

We report the case of a 54-year-old woman who presented to the ear, nose, and throat (ENT) outpatient clinic with hearing loss, tinnitus, and fullness in her right ear. In the first clinical examination, a pouch hanging in the anterior upper quadrant was detected in the tympanic membrane of the righ...

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Autores principales: Öner, Fatih, Aktan, Bülent, Uslu, Hakan, Güven, Esin, Kılıç, Korhan, Yılmaz, Ahmet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Galenos Publishing 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8329396/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34386802
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/tao.2021.2021-1-12
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author Öner, Fatih
Aktan, Bülent
Uslu, Hakan
Güven, Esin
Kılıç, Korhan
Yılmaz, Ahmet
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Aktan, Bülent
Uslu, Hakan
Güven, Esin
Kılıç, Korhan
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description We report the case of a 54-year-old woman who presented to the ear, nose, and throat (ENT) outpatient clinic with hearing loss, tinnitus, and fullness in her right ear. In the first clinical examination, a pouch hanging in the anterior upper quadrant was detected in the tympanic membrane of the right ear. A tick larva was found in the cyctic lesion located on the tympanic membrane. Our case was unique due to this unexpected diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-83293962021-08-11 Born in the Ear Canal: Tick Larva on the Eardrum Öner, Fatih Aktan, Bülent Uslu, Hakan Güven, Esin Kılıç, Korhan Yılmaz, Ahmet Turk Arch Otorhinolaryngol Case Report We report the case of a 54-year-old woman who presented to the ear, nose, and throat (ENT) outpatient clinic with hearing loss, tinnitus, and fullness in her right ear. In the first clinical examination, a pouch hanging in the anterior upper quadrant was detected in the tympanic membrane of the right ear. A tick larva was found in the cyctic lesion located on the tympanic membrane. Our case was unique due to this unexpected diagnosis. Galenos Publishing 2021-06 2021-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8329396/ /pubmed/34386802 http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/tao.2021.2021-1-12 Text en ©Copyright 2021 by Official Journal of the Turkish Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Content of this journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Güven, Esin
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