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Results: Although vertigo resolved after surgical intervention, the woman continued to experience hearing loss and finally experienced deafness. Patient had an unusual mechanism of inner ear trauma. The FB was identified as part of a fish and determined to originate from a fish species of the genus Hemiramphus which is listed as harmless to humans in FishBase. 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