Abstract
A boy, 9 years old, suffered from daily aggravating left otorrhea since last June. After visiting a specialist who diagnosed it as left chronic suppurative otitis media with polyp and receiving various treatments in vain, he came to our clinic for a radical operation.
Tympanoplasty carried out on August 27 showed the existence of an enormous foreign body extending upwards from front to back over the deep part of the external auditory meatus and the tympanum. The foreign body extracted by forcep turned out to be an old bamboo scrap 3.0cm long and 0.8cm wide. Conversation with his family revealed that the boy had by accident in March last stuck upwards a bamboo stick into his left neck and the bamboo scrap 5cm long was immediately extracted by a surgeon.
We concluded from various circumstances that this remaining bamoo scrap gradually reached that region by mastication.
