Recurrent brain abscess due to an unexpected foreign body

W P Vandertop; W B de Vries; J van Swieten; L M Ramos

doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/0090-3019(92)90063-S

Recurrent brain abscess due to an unexpected foreign body

W P Vandertop, W B de Vries, J van Swieten, L M Ramos

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Abstract

We report an exceptional case of a patient with chronic frontal sinusitis complicated by chronic osteomyelitis and a cutaneous fistula. A recurrent brain abscess developed and was only cured after a very unusual wooden retained foreign body was removed at surgery. The hazards of wood as a foreign body are discussed and it is stressed that the possibility of a retained foreign body, even unsuspected, must always be borne in mind.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	39-41
Number of pages	3
Journal	Surgical neurology
Volume	37
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0090-3019(92)90063-S
Publication status	Published - Jan 1992

Keywords

Adult
Brain Abscess/complications
Diagnosis, Differential
Foreign Bodies/complications
Frontal Sinusitis/etiology
Humans
Male
Recurrence

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