A Case of Perilymph Fistula caused by Middle Ear Foreign Body

Lee, Sang Cheol; Oh, Bong Whan; Kim, Seong Soo

doi:10.35420/jcohns.1993.4.2.379

J Clin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1993; 4(2):379-385

pISSN: 1225-0244, eISSN: 2713-833X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35420/jcohns.1993.4.2.379

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이상철¹, 오봉환¹, 김성수¹

A Case of Perilymph Fistula caused by Middle Ear Foreign Body

Sang Cheol Lee¹, Bong Whan Oh¹, Seong Soo Kim¹

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¹인제대학교 의과대학 부산백병원 이비인후과학교실

¹Department of Otolaryngology, Inje University College of Medicine, Pusan Paik Hospital

© Copyright 1993 The Busan, Ulsan, Gyeoungnam Branch of Korean Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: May 31, 2020

ABSTRACT

Perilymph fistula is a disease of leakage of perilymph through the abnormally formed pathway between perilymphatic space and middle ear cavity. The causes are poststapedectomy, head trauma, congenital abnormality, sudden changes of pressure of cerebrospinal or middle ear, idiopathic, etc. But perlymph fistula caused by middle ear foreign body was reported rarely.

Recently authors have experienced a case of perilymph fistula caused by foreign body, molten-iron, into middle ear cavity, so report it with a brief review of literatures.

Keywords: Perilymph Fistula; Middle Ear Foreign Body; Molten Iron