Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Metallic foreign body in middle ear: an unusual cause of hearing loss | Head Face Medicine BioMed Central Open Access Case report Metallic foreign body in middle ear an unusual cause of hearing loss Anna Eleftheriadou 1 Thomas Chalastras1 Dionysios Kyrmizakis3 Sotirios Sfetsos1 Konstantinos Dagalakis1 and Dimitrios Kandiloros2 Address Department of Otolaryngology G. Gennimatas Hospital Athens Greece - Department of Otolaryngology University of Athens Hippokration Hospital Athens Greece and 3Department of Otolaryngology General Hospital of Rethimno Crete Email Anna Eleftheriadou - aegika@ Thomas Chalastras - chalastras@ Dionysios Kyrmizakis - dkyrmiz@ Sotirios Sfetsos - sotbox@ Konstantinos Dagalakis - aegika@ Dimitrios Kandiloros - aegika@ Corresponding author Published 16 May 2007 Received I March 2006 Head Face Medicine 2007 3 23 doi 1746-160X-3-23 Accepted 16 May 2007 This article is available from http content 3 1 23 2007 Eleftheriadou et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract This is a rare case report of a foreign metallic body found in the middle ear. During the use of an electric welding by a metalworker a glowing drop of dissolved metal overrun burning the skin of his external auditory meatus perforated the tympanic membrane and finally was implanted around the ossicles as a foreign body. Due to difficulty of the physical examination and the moderate symptoms hearing loss and sense of fullness the foreign body was detected six months after the incident by CT scanning and it was removed by a transcanal approach under general anesthesia. A successful ossiculoplasty-tympanoplasty was followed four weeks later. Background Foreign bodies of the external ear canal are relatively common in .
