LATE DIAGNOSIS AND REMOVAL OF A LARGE WOODEN FOREIGN-BODY IN THE CRANIO-ORBITAL REGION

The rare case of a large wooden foreign body impaled in the cranio-orb ital region, and its late diagnosis and successful removal, is present ed. A 26-year-old man was admitted to a regional hospital after suffer ing a severe penetrating craniocerebral injury from a motorcycle accid ent. Two months after the accident, computed tomographic examination a t Burdenko Neurosurgical institute revealed a large foreign body locat ed in the cranio-orbital region and penetrating the right. temporal lo be, with surrounding abscess development. Radiological examination, in cluding three-dimensional computed tomography, enables one to choose t he optimal surgical approach and to remove the foreign body, thereby a voiding purulent, inflammatory complications.