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Case report and brief review of literature on sonographic detection of accidentally implanted wooden foreign body causing persistent sinus

Despite advances in imaging techniques, the detection of vegetative foreign bodies in soft tissues remains a difficult and sometimes even a challenging task. Clinical evaluation of such patient may present several months or even years after the initial injury and clinician may fail to elicit an ante...

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Autores principales: Borgohain, Bhaskar, Borgohain, Nitu, Handique, Akash, Gogoi, Parag Jyoti
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3495023/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22871025
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2036-7902-4-10
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description Despite advances in imaging techniques, the detection of vegetative foreign bodies in soft tissues remains a difficult and sometimes even a challenging task. Clinical evaluation of such patient may present several months or even years after the initial injury and clinician may fail to elicit an antecedent skin puncture. X-ray examination will miss radiolucent foreign bodies. A 15-year-old boy presented with a draining non-healing sinus at the lateral aspect of his right thigh for 9 months. Musculoskeletal ultrasonography was ordered after ruling out chronic osteomyelitis to detect possible lesions around the thigh. High-frequency linear ultrasonic probe readily detected an elongated foreign body within the vastus lateralis muscle. A long piece of wood was confirmed at surgery. Non-healing sinus with normal finding in radiograph following old trauma should raise the suspicion of implanted radiolucent foreign body/bodies. The role of diagnostic ultrasound as a valuable screening tool for the detection of foreign body is briefly reviewed.
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spelling pubmed-34950232012-11-13 Case report and brief review of literature on sonographic detection of accidentally implanted wooden foreign body causing persistent sinus Borgohain, Bhaskar Borgohain, Nitu Handique, Akash Gogoi, Parag Jyoti Crit Ultrasound J Case Report Despite advances in imaging techniques, the detection of vegetative foreign bodies in soft tissues remains a difficult and sometimes even a challenging task. Clinical evaluation of such patient may present several months or even years after the initial injury and clinician may fail to elicit an antecedent skin puncture. X-ray examination will miss radiolucent foreign bodies. A 15-year-old boy presented with a draining non-healing sinus at the lateral aspect of his right thigh for 9 months. Musculoskeletal ultrasonography was ordered after ruling out chronic osteomyelitis to detect possible lesions around the thigh. High-frequency linear ultrasonic probe readily detected an elongated foreign body within the vastus lateralis muscle. A long piece of wood was confirmed at surgery. Non-healing sinus with normal finding in radiograph following old trauma should raise the suspicion of implanted radiolucent foreign body/bodies. The role of diagnostic ultrasound as a valuable screening tool for the detection of foreign body is briefly reviewed. Springer 2012-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3495023/ /pubmed/22871025 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2036-7902-4-10 Text en Copyright ©2012 Borgohain et al.; licensee Springer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Case report and brief review of literature on sonographic detection of accidentally implanted wooden foreign body causing persistent sinus
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title_fullStr Case report and brief review of literature on sonographic detection of accidentally implanted wooden foreign body causing persistent sinus
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title_short Case report and brief review of literature on sonographic detection of accidentally implanted wooden foreign body causing persistent sinus
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3495023/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22871025
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2036-7902-4-10
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