Vol.96 No.8 contentsPRACTICA OTO-RHINO-LARYNGOLOGICA
Vol. 96 No.8 August 2003
A Case of Child Abuse Manifesting Foreign
Bodies in External Auditory Canals
Masahiro Kikuchi, Etsuo Yamamoto, Yosaku Shiomi,
Yoshiko Shiomi, Keizo Fujiwara and Futoshi, Watanabe
(Kobe City General Hospital)
Makito Tanabe
(Nishi-Kobe Medical Center)
Keijiro Fukazawa
(Hyogo College of Medicine)
Makiko Sakakura
(Kobe City Welfare Center for the Mentally and Physically Handicapped)
A case is presented of an infant who presented with foreign bodies in bilateral external auditory canals. Battered child syndrome was defined in 1962 by Kempe et al. as nonaccidental attack or injury repeatedly inflicted upon children by persons caring for them. Otolaryngologists are rarely in a position to diagnose and initiate management of child abuse presenting as injury to the head and neck area. The number of reported cases of child abuse has increased dramatically over the past several years and it is likely that physicians will examine such cases and be unaware of the fact that the child is being abused.
Key words : foreign body, external auditory canal, battered child syndrome