Post-operative intracranial foreign body granuloma: a case report.
The authors report and discuss some clinical, radiological, histological and ultrastructural aspects of an intracranial foreign body granuloma. This granuloma, which simulated a cavernoma, was due to a surgical swab forgotten during a previous neurosurgical evacuation of an intracerebral hematoma.
Djindjian
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M
Service de Neurochirurgie, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France.
Brugieres
P
P
Razavi-Encha
F
F
Allegret
C
C
Poirier
J
J
D000328:Adult; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D003368:Gossypium; D006099:Granuloma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006406:Hematoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D012086:Reoperation; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed