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A 42-year-old male who had two facial fistulas in the right cheek complained of recurrent attacks of pain on mastication and bilateral hearing loss.
He had been treated under the diagnosis of osteomyelitis of temporomandibular joint on the right side and chronic otitis media on both side at many hospitals including five university hospitals for the past 17 years.
When we examined him first with indirect nasopharyngoscopy at the out-patient clinic of the Jikei University hospital on September 9th in 1977, we found a chopstick made of plastic material bridged. between both sides of the posterior portion of Rosenmullers fossa through the soft tissue of infra-temporal region
The foreign body was successfuly removed by palatoepipharyngotomy, followed with an uneventful post-operative course.
