Citation
K. Irshad et al., UNSUSPECTED PENETRATING MAXILLO-ORBITOCRANIAL INJURY - A CASE-REPORT, CAN J SURG, 41(5), 1998, pp. 393-397
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery
Journal title
Canadian journal of surgery
ISSN journal
0008428X
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Volume
41
Issue
5
Year of publication
1998
Pages
393 - 397
Database
ISI
SICI code
0008-428X(1998)41:5<393:UPMI-A>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
A healthy 37-year-old man presented to the emergency room, complaining
of blunt trauma to his mandible from a tree branch, Plain radiographs
and computed tomography demonstrated a penetrating orbitocranial fore
ign body with the maxillary sinus as the entry site. The foreign body
was a chain-saw file. It was extracted successfully through the oral c
avity. The patient's recovery was uncomplicated and he suffered no neu
rologic or opthalmic sequelae.