Hair tourniquet of the circumvallate papillae: a potentially "hairy" situation.
Oral foreign bodies and hair-thread tourniquets are fairly common findings. The combination of the two, however, is rarer. In this article, we present a case involving a hair-thread tourniquet of a circumvallate papillae (more commonly known as a "taste bud"). We discuss methods for removal of hair-thread tourniquets as well as techniques for examining children for oral foreign bodies.
Division of Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA. Kari.Schneider@cchmc.org
Kari
K
Schneider
Stephanie
S
Kennebeck
Lyndsay
L
Madden
Avril
A
Campbell
D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies; D006197:Hair; D006801:Humans; D013650:Taste Buds; D014111:Tourniquets