title: Computed tomography of a cranial wooden foreign body.
abstract: Wooden foreign bodies have surprisingly low attenuation coefficients and can be difficult to discern on computed tomography when located in the paranasal sinuses or retroorbital fat unless using either a "measured mode" or statistical analysis. A case is presented of a wooden pool cue inserted into a patient's nostril and sinus that illustrates this point.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014934:Wood