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Metal spark perforation of the tympanic membrane with deafness and facial paralysis*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

J. Stage  and
T. Vinding
J. Stage*
Affiliation:
Copenhagen, Denmark
T. Vinding
Affiliation:
Copenhagen, Denmark
*
Jan Stage, Frederiksborgvej 162, 2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark.
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Abstract

An exteremely rare case of traumatic thermal injury of the middle and inner ear with deafness and irreversible peripheral facial palsy is presented. The accident was caused by a metal spark perforating the tympanic membrane during welding.

Type
Clinical Records
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 100 , Issue 6 , June 1986 , pp. 699 - 700
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1986

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Footnotes

*

From the Department of Oto-laryngology and the Department of Ophthalmology, Central Hospital, Nykoebing Falster, Denmark.

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