Retained foreign body in ethmoid with bilateral pneumoencephaly.
Intracranial penetrating injury through the nose is rare. We present a case of a 79 year-old patient who had intracranial penetrating injury with a wooden object accompanied by massive bilateral pneumoencephaly with the presence of a foreign body in the ethmoid bone with fracture and displacement of crista galli. This is a hitherto unreported retained foreign body with fractured ethmoid resulting in bilateral pneumoencephaly.
Noordally
S Oaleed
SO
Department of Critical Care, U1020, CHU Brugmann, Free University of Brussels, Brussels. Sheikoaleed.Noordally@chu-brugmann.be
Nkala
Guy Djapong
GD
Sena
Jose C
JC
Sohawon
Schoeb
S
D000368:Aged; D005004:Ethmoid Bone / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy; D006801:Humans; D011011:Pneumoencephalography / Q000379:methods*; D014950:Wounds, Penetrating / Q000150:complications*