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Fatih Öner1, Bülent Aktan2, Hakan Uslu3
1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Erzurum Regional Training and Research Hospital, Erzurum, Turkey.
Turkish Archives of Otorhinolaryngology
|August 13, 2021
Abstract:
We report the case of a 54-year-old woman who presented to the ear, nose, and throat (ENT) outpatient clinic with hearing loss, tinnitus, and fullness in her right ear. In the first clinical examination, a pouch hanging in the anterior upper quadrant was detected in the tympanic membrane of the right ear. A tick larva was found in the cyctic lesion located on the tympanic membrane. Our case was unique due to this unexpected diagnosis.
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