title: Palatal trauma: an unusual cause of a parotid sinus.
abstract: A case is described of a 3-year-old boy who presented with a seemingly trivial injury to his soft palate, who went on to develop a parotid sinus as a result of a retained foreign body. This is a rare clinical problem and it highlights the difficulty in the clinical assessment of a palatal injury--especially in children. The child had the foreign body removed successfully 5 months after the initial injury and made an uneventful recovery.
authors.affiliation: Department of ENT, Lewisham Hospital, London, UK.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Grieve
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pracy
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Walsh
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Bowdler
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D003297:Cooking and Eating Utensils; D017577:Cutaneous Fistula / Q000209:etiology*; D004431:Ear, External; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010160:Palate, Soft / Q000293:injuries*; D010305:Parotid Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D012467:Salivary Gland Fistula / Q000209:etiology*; D014934:Wood