Hearing aid silicone impression material as a foreign body in the middle ear.

We report an extremely rare case of hearing aid silicone impression material as a foreign body in the middle ear. Symptoms of the patient were otorrhea and vertigo after taking of a mold impression on his only hearing ear, and the symptoms mimicked chronic otitis media. A temporal bone CT scan revealed foreign body material in the middle ear and Eustachian tube. An intact canal wall mastoidectomy with a facial recess approach and type IV tympanoplasty was performed to remove the silicone impression material. In addition to the case report, we review the literature regarding impression material foreign bodies. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Hyun-Min Lee, Keun-Ik Yi, Jae-Hoon Jung, Il-Woo Lee. Hearing aid silicone impression material as a foreign body in the middle ear. American journal of otolaryngology. 2017 Jan 01;38(1):108-111

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