Vol.96 No.1 contentsPRACTICA OTO-RHINO-LARYNGOLOGICA
Vol. 96 No. 1 January 2003
Foreign Bodies in the Auditory Tube; A Case Report
Itomi Nishijima, Sayoko Goto, Yukie Yamamura
Michiko Sato, Akio Shino and Toshio Yoshihara
(Tokyo Women's Medical University)
A case of a foreign body in the auditory tube is reported. A 1-year-old female ate a leaf of sawara (Japanese False Cypress) accidentally. There after, her mother tried to make her vomit it. The girl vomited bloody saliva, and she was brought to emergency section of the hospital. Pediatricians found the leaf of the sawara in the epipharynx. Most of the leaf was removed, but parts of the leaf remained in the right pharyngeal ostium of the auditory tube. The infant was admitted to our hospital, and the foreign particles were removed completely under general anesthesia. Postoperative course was uneventful. Foreign bodies in the auditory tube are extremely rare. Only six cases have been reported in the Japanese literature.
Key words : foreign body, leaf of sawara, auditory tube, epipharynx