REMOVAL OF A CRANIO-ORBITAL FOREIGN-BODY BY A SUPRAORBITAL-PTERION APPROACH

Foreign body removal in blind, penetrating craniocerebral injuries, es pecially those involving craniobasal localization, could entail additi onal brain trauma risk. Under such conditions one can use surgical app roaches for tumor removal or clipping of intracranial aneurysms. In th is report, we present a case of blind, penetrating craniofacial injury in which a supraorbital-pterion approach for foreign body removal was used. Craniography, carotid angiography, and computed tomography data , including three-dimensional imaging, were taken into consideration w hile planning the operation.