Removal of an Intra-parotid Foreign Body without Parotidectomy and Dissection of the Facial Nerve

✍ Scribed by Michael V. Medina; Natasha Pollak

• Book ID: 102927216
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 969 KB
• Volume: 120
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0023-852X
• DOI: 10.1002/lary.21596

✦ Synopsis

This is the case of a 65 year old male who was cutting a piece of wood with a circular saw when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in the area of his right cheek. Punctate bleeding was noted in his cheek and he sought consult with the Emergency Room. On presentation, he had a puncture wound in his lower cheek/right mandibular area, slight swelling, tenderness, pain on opening the jaw and talking, limitation of jaw opening secondary to pain, pain around right ear and an intact facial nerve function