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Foreign body (FB) ingestion, a common and serious problem in children, can present with a wide variety of symptoms. This case report describes an unusual esophageal foreign body (EFB), in which the patient presented with dysphagia, odynophagia, vomiting, and regurgitation with history of ingesting her mother’s pin. Plain radiograph of the soft tissue neck revealed the presence of a radio-opaque ingested foreign body (the pin) that located at the lower level of cricopharynx. We performed rigid esophagoscopy under general anesthesia. On esophagoscopy the pin was visualized in lower border of the cricopharynx trapped by the cricopharyngeal sphincter at its base. It was hard metallic in consistency and of approximately 2 cm in size

Cholesteatoma is a destructive and expanding growth consisting of keratinizing squamous epithelium in the middle ear and/or mastoid process. The authors report a case of a 31-year-old man with chronic otitis media of his left ear for many years with a positive history of partial mastoidectomy in 10 years ago. His presentation was as follows: otorrhea as a funky pus from the left ear for 10 days, tenderness, Erythema, and fluctuation in the left posturicular ear and general appearance was ill and feverish. In The laboratory evaluation C-reactive protein (CRP) was 2+ and Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) was 55(mm/h).after that the Computed tomography scan (CT) was taken and incision and drainage of abases was done. Two weeks later mastoidectomy for cholesteatoma was done. We raised the case for discussing the time of cholesteatoma surgery and its time interval with cholesteatoma complication. And with the case, we can propose that if there is a definite time interval between the two surgeries due to the better field of surgery and reduce inflammation. So Second surgery was easier and less risky and with better results. We prepared the operating room for incision and derange.