Unusual foreign bodies of the temporal bone.
Foreign bodies that result from traumatic injury may be the cause of many clinical symptoms. Chronic otitis externa is one of the many clinical symptoms following a traumatic perforation of a foreign body from the oral cavity penetrating the deep tissue of the neck and ultimately lodging in the external ear canal. We discuss two such uncommon cases.
D002675:Child, Preschool; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006099:Granuloma / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008206:Lymphatic Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008417:Mastoiditis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D010032:Otitis Externa / Q000209:etiology; D010033:Otitis Media / Q000209:etiology; D014066:Palatine Tonsil; D013701:Temporal Bone; D014068:Tonsillectomy; D014069:Tonsillitis / Q000209:etiology; D014934:Wood