| Literature DB >> 17476516 |
Khaled Badran1, Holger Sudhoff, Roger Gray.
Abstract
We report an air gun pellet in the ethmoid sinus. The entrance point was concealed in the conjunctiva of the medial canthus, sparing the eye and skin. The pellet traversed the ethmoid and was stopped by the cribriform plate. It was removed by an endoscopic approach without complications. The literature is reviewed. A high index of suspicion is required to identify penetrating foreign bodies in patients walking in with low-velocity gun injuries.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17476516 DOI: 10.1007/s00405-007-0324-y
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol ISSN: 0937-4477 Impact factor: 3.236