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Ethem İlhan1, Handan Yaman, Burhan Dost
1Department of Otolaryngology, Medical Faculty of Düzce University, Düzce, Turkey. ethemilhan@yahoo.com.
Abstract:
Foreign body lodgement in the larynx is a rare situation. Our review of the literature revealed no living foreign body in larynx except for laryngeal leeches and anisakiasis. In this article, we report a patient with unusual laryngeal foreign body lodgement: a bee which presented with sudden odynophagia and stinging sensation in throat. The bee was detected on the laryngeal mucosa in indirect laryngoscopic examination and removed immediately under general anesthesia in apneic period. In this case report, we describe the importance of detailed anamnesis and laryngeal examination even if the patient has no severe symptoms.
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