Juxtapontine abscess around a retained wooden fragment following a penetrating eye injury: surgical management via a transtentorial approach.
Penetrating injury through the orbit with a retained intracranial wooden foreign body is rare. The authors report the case of a child with a juxtapontine brain abscess secondary to a retained foreign body. The pitfalls in diagnosis and the surgical management for removal of the wooden fragment and drainage of the abscess are discussed.
Department of Neurosurgery, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. drguptasunil@gmail.com
Sunil K
SK
Gupta
Alok A
AA
Umredkar
D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D003399:Craniotomy / Q000379:methods; D015807:Eye Injuries, Penetrating / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011149:Pons / Q000293:injuries*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014934:Wood