title: Recurrent brain abscess due to an unexpected foreign body.
abstract: We report an exceptional case of a patient with chronic frontal sinusitis complicated by chronic osteomyelitis and a cutaneous fistula. A recurrent brain abscess developed and was only cured after a very unusual wooden retained foreign body was removed at surgery. The hazards of wood as a foreign body are discussed and it is stressed that the possibility of a retained foreign body, even unsuspected, must always be borne in mind.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Utrecht, Holland.
authors.forename: W P
authors.initials: WP
authors.lastname: Vandertop
authors.forename: W B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: de Vries
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: van Swieten
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Ramos
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D015522:Frontal Sinusitis / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012008:Recurrence