An unusual complication of T-tubes.
The morbidity of long-term ventilation tubes (Goode T-tubes) is often discussed with reference to otorrhoea, tympanosclerosis and long-term perforation. We report three cases of the T-tube slipping into the middle-ear cleft. In two of the three patients this was asymptomatic and the T-tubes were left in situ. In the third patient this complication was documented on three occasions when the T-tube was removed and reinserted for recurrent effusions. We are unaware of this complication being previously reported in the literature.
Green
K M
KM
Department of Otolaryngology, Royal Preston Hospital, Lancashire, UK.
de Carpentier
J P
JP
Curley
J W
JW
D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008876:Middle Ear Ventilation / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000295:instrumentation; D010034:Otitis Media with Effusion / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D012008:Recurrence; D014432:Tympanic Membrane