Late presentation of a paranasal sinus glass foreign body: a case report

Foreign bodies in the paranasal sinuses are rare and mostly related to maxillo-facial trauma. We treated a 47-year-old man with a late complication arising from a foreign body in the nasoethmoid sinus present for 16 years after a road traffic accident. Patients presenting with maxillo-facial injurie...

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Autores principales: Mangwani, Jitendra, Su, Archibald Paul
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829813
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-6483
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description Foreign bodies in the paranasal sinuses are rare and mostly related to maxillo-facial trauma. We treated a 47-year-old man with a late complication arising from a foreign body in the nasoethmoid sinus present for 16 years after a road traffic accident. Patients presenting with maxillo-facial injuries, especially those with lacerations due to glass or car wind-screen trauma should have thorough examination and appropriate imaging of the injury.
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spelling pubmed-27400842009-10-14 Late presentation of a paranasal sinus glass foreign body: a case report Mangwani, Jitendra Su, Archibald Paul Cases J Case report Foreign bodies in the paranasal sinuses are rare and mostly related to maxillo-facial trauma. We treated a 47-year-old man with a late complication arising from a foreign body in the nasoethmoid sinus present for 16 years after a road traffic accident. Patients presenting with maxillo-facial injuries, especially those with lacerations due to glass or car wind-screen trauma should have thorough examination and appropriate imaging of the injury. Cases Network Ltd 2009-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC2740084/ /pubmed/19829813 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-6483 Text en © 2009 Mangwani and Su; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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