Metallic foreign body in middle ear: an unusual cause of hearing loss
<p>Abstract</p> <p>This is a rare case report of a foreign metallic body found in the middle ear. During the use of an electric welding by a metalworker, a glowing drop of dissolved metal overrun, burning the skin of his external auditory meatus, perforated the tympanic membrane an...
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| author | Dagalakis Konstantinos Sfetsos Sotirios Kyrmizakis Dionysios Chalastras Thomas Eleftheriadou Anna Kandiloros Dimitrios |
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| description | <p>Abstract</p> <p>This is a rare case report of a foreign metallic body found in the middle ear. During the use of an electric welding by a metalworker, a glowing drop of dissolved metal overrun, burning the skin of his external auditory meatus, perforated the tympanic membrane and finally was implanted around the ossicles as a foreign body. Due to difficulty of the physical examination and the moderate symptoms (hearing loss and sense of fullness), the foreign body was detected six months after the incident, by CT scanning and it was removed by a transcanal approach under general anesthesia. A successful ossiculoplasty-tympanoplasty was followed four weeks later.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fbd0fc8ac153467185d34b7749ac349c2022-12-21T21:18:43ZengBMCHead & Face Medicine1746-160X2007-05-01312310.1186/1746-160X-3-23Metallic foreign body in middle ear: an unusual cause of hearing lossDagalakis KonstantinosSfetsos SotiriosKyrmizakis DionysiosChalastras ThomasEleftheriadou AnnaKandiloros Dimitrios<p>Abstract</p> <p>This is a rare case report of a foreign metallic body found in the middle ear. During the use of an electric welding by a metalworker, a glowing drop of dissolved metal overrun, burning the skin of his external auditory meatus, perforated the tympanic membrane and finally was implanted around the ossicles as a foreign body. Due to difficulty of the physical examination and the moderate symptoms (hearing loss and sense of fullness), the foreign body was detected six months after the incident, by CT scanning and it was removed by a transcanal approach under general anesthesia. A successful ossiculoplasty-tympanoplasty was followed four weeks later.</p>http://www.head-face-med.com/content/3/1/23 |
| spellingShingle | Dagalakis Konstantinos Sfetsos Sotirios Kyrmizakis Dionysios Chalastras Thomas Eleftheriadou Anna Kandiloros Dimitrios Metallic foreign body in middle ear: an unusual cause of hearing loss Head & Face Medicine |
| title | Metallic foreign body in middle ear: an unusual cause of hearing loss |
| title_full | Metallic foreign body in middle ear: an unusual cause of hearing loss |
| title_fullStr | Metallic foreign body in middle ear: an unusual cause of hearing loss |
| title_full_unstemmed | Metallic foreign body in middle ear: an unusual cause of hearing loss |
| title_short | Metallic foreign body in middle ear: an unusual cause of hearing loss |
| title_sort | metallic foreign body in middle ear an unusual cause of hearing loss |
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