Engelsk titel: A four-year-old boy with swollen cheek after a fall
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Författare:
Heimdal JH
;
Nygaard SJ
;
Olofsson J
Språk: Nor
Antal referenser: 5
Dokumenttyp:
Fallbeskrivning
UI-nummer: 05091597
Sammanfattning
X : A four-year-old boy had fallen from a tree in nursery school and had minor symptoms immediately after the trauma. He was admitted to the local casualty clinic the same night, but no signs of local injury were detected. The next morning he was admitted to the department of oto-rhino-laryngology at the local hospital due to increasing local swelling and pain in the cheek. A computed tomography examination demonstrated an extensive preauricular soft tissue swelling and a long central hypodensity from the left ear to the oropharynx. The presence of a penetrating foreign body was suspected and the boy was admitted to our hospital. An examination in general anaesthesia revealed a small skin lesion medial to the tragus in the left external auditory meatus and a wooden stick was seen crossing the oropharynx. The eight and a half centimetre long wooden stick had penetrated from the cartilaginous part of the left external auditory meatus to the right palatal tonsil. It was removed through a pre-auricular incision. No complications were observed and the boy could leave the hospital after four days of observation with antibiotic therapy and tetanus prophylaxis.