Computed tomography of a cranial wooden foreign body.
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.
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