An otherwise healthy 3-year-old boy presented to the emergency department, accompanied by his father, for concern of aural foreign body. The patient was playing outside near his family’s gravel driveway and the father witnessed him place a pebble in his ear…
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Read MoreBy Hoi See Tsao, MD, and Alicia Genisca, MD
A 2-year-old previously healthy boy presented to the emergency department with a foreign body in his right nostril.
The patient was staying at his father’s house and the father became concerned about a foreign body when the patient suddenly began complaining of right nostril pain and dark brown nasal discharge. The father did not know what foreign body may have been inserted. On the patient’s return to his mother’s house the next day, he was found to also have right nostril swelling. His mother brought him to the emergency department for evaluation. The mother denied the patient having fever, coughing, gagging, vomiting, diarrhea, or abdominal pain.
Read MoreA 26 year-old male presents after a motorcycle accident. He was the helmeted, single-occupant of a motorcycle that crashed into the back of a stopped car. There are no external signs of injury, but he believes his neck may have hit the handlebars as he was thrown from the bike. He denies loss of consciousness. His only complaint is that his voice sounds hoarse and he is having difficulty swallowing. He denies any intoxicants…
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