鼓膜湯傷の2例

　緒言

　鼓膜の火傷・湯傷は，鼓膜が比較的深部にある関係上，それの出現する事は比較的稀であり，殊に湯傷の本邦に於ける報告は少なく，その臨床経過に関しても詳細に記述されていない恨みがある。私は最近鼓膜湯傷の2例を経験したので先人諸賢の報告に追加して御参考に供したいと思う。

Two cases of the burn of tympanic membrane are reported. A man, aged 53 recieved a burn that, by a hot water bottle spilling near his pillow, extended into his left tympanum. In spite of continued treatment for the period of 1 month no improvement was seen in the symptoms of tinnitus and hard of hearing with persistance of the perforation of the tympanic membrane. The patient abandoned the treatment without cure or dismissal.

In the second case a man, aged 29, carrying a bucket of hot water tripped and fell that re-sulted in burn of left tympanic membrane. The treatment of ear was instituted from the very next day of the injury but the large per-foration of the tympanic membrane and the symptom of hard of hearing persited without healing or abatement. After 1 month of treat-ment the patient was lost to further observa-tion.