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Figure 1: Left sided silver nitrate artefact appearing as a
bony fragment in left EAC due to similar densities of the silver nitrate
and bone.
Figure 2: Silver nitrate appearing as a metallic foreign body
in left EAC.
Figure 3: Right EAC granulations and multiple overlying
metallic spots.