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Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol
May 2022
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
Objective: The differential of an external auditory canal mass is broad. One rare potential cause is a pneumatocele of the tympanic membrane, which has only been described 1 other time in the literature. This report serves to describe the second case of this pathology, including its unique presentation, and benign clinical course.
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August 2003
CHU Pellegrin, Clinique ORL et CCF, Tripode, Place Amélie Raba Leon, F-33076 Bordeaux, France.
This article reports a case of peneumoparotid in a ten-year-old girl. This pathology is caused by insufflation of air into the acini of the parotid gland via Stensen's duct. A review of the literature shows that it has many aetiologies but more frequently it presents as an occupational hazard among glassblowers and wind instrumentalists.
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April 2000
Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, University of Southampton, UK.
The postcricoid subsite is difficult to visualize on flexible laryngopharyngoscopy. The view can be improved with either auto-insufflation manoeuvres or anterior neck skin traction. In this study, the view of the hypopharynx was graded whilst anterior neck skin traction was applied during the trumpet manoeuvre; the latter involves the patient blowing on his finger as if blowing up a balloon.
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