Chronic discharging ear in a child: are we missing something?
The Medical Journal of Malaysia
;
: 368-71, 2013.
Article
in English
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-630358
ABSTRACT
Chronic discharging ear, mostly due to middle or external ear infection, is one of the leading causes for seeking healthcare among the paediatric population in a developing country. However, a long-standing forgotten middle ear foreign body forms a rare cause for such presentation demanding a high index of suspicion from the clinicians. Most of them are iatrogenic or accidental, and are removed by conventional permeatal approach; need for tympanotomy is rarely documented in the recent literature. We report the first case where a large stone was introduced into the middle ear through a pre-existing tympanic membrane perforation by the child himself, and only the second documentation of removal of a middle ear foreign body by tympanotomy in a child.
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The Medical Journal of Malaysia
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2013
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