Isolated fracture of the malleus handle: a video clip.
Isolated malleus fracture is a rare clinical entity, and usually the handle of the malleus is involved. We report a video, to our knowledge the first in the literature, of a diagnostic otoscopy of a malleus fracture showing the movement of a left fractured malleus handle during a Valsalva maneuver (see the video online at www.laryngoscope.com).
Department of Otolaryngology, Interdisciplinary Center for Biomedical Research (CIR), University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy. m.casale@unicampus.it
Manuele
M
Casale
Antonio
A
De Franco
Vittorio
V
Rinaldi
Carlo
C
Zini
Fabrizio
F
Salvinelli
D000058:Accidental Falls; D000158:Acoustic Impedance Tests; D000328:Adult; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D006309:Hearing / Q000502:physiology; D006314:Hearing Loss, Conductive / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008307:Malleus / Q000293:injuries*; D038781:Otoscopy; D020127:Recovery of Function; D014636:Valsalva Maneuver; D014741:Video Recording