Foreign body in the Eustachian tube - case presentation and technique used for removal

Foreign bodies of the external ear are very common; the same can not be said about foreign bodies of the middle ear, especially of the Eustachian tube. CASE PRESENTATION: Alcoholic and psychopathic patient presented a foreign body (barbecue wooden stick) purposefully introduced in his middle ear and...

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Autor principal: Ribeiro, Fernando de Andrade Quintanilha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9450605/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18392515
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1808-8694(15)30764-3
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description Foreign bodies of the external ear are very common; the same can not be said about foreign bodies of the middle ear, especially of the Eustachian tube. CASE PRESENTATION: Alcoholic and psychopathic patient presented a foreign body (barbecue wooden stick) purposefully introduced in his middle ear and Eustachian tube during an act of delinquency. The foreign body was stuck in the tube and could not be removed externally. It was surgically removed as described by the authors later on in the paper. COMMENTS: The patient recovered well, with no sequela on the facial nerve and without important vertigo.
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spelling pubmed-94506052022-09-09 Foreign body in the Eustachian tube - case presentation and technique used for removal Ribeiro, Fernando de Andrade Quintanilha Braz J Otorhinolaryngol Case Report Foreign bodies of the external ear are very common; the same can not be said about foreign bodies of the middle ear, especially of the Eustachian tube. CASE PRESENTATION: Alcoholic and psychopathic patient presented a foreign body (barbecue wooden stick) purposefully introduced in his middle ear and Eustachian tube during an act of delinquency. The foreign body was stuck in the tube and could not be removed externally. It was surgically removed as described by the authors later on in the paper. COMMENTS: The patient recovered well, with no sequela on the facial nerve and without important vertigo. Elsevier 2015-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9450605/ /pubmed/18392515 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1808-8694(15)30764-3 Text en . https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9450605/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18392515
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1808-8694(15)30764-3
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