Differential diagnosis for a ring-enhancing lesion on CT/MRI brain: retained cotton ball pledget

New or persisting symptoms require careful evaluation and investigation. We present a case report of a 58-year-old man who underwent a craniotomy for a subdural haematoma and presented a decade later with worsening neurological symptoms. Investigation revealed the cause to be a delayed foreign body...

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Autor principal: Hughes, Luke D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6878721/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31798826
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz339
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description New or persisting symptoms require careful evaluation and investigation. We present a case report of a 58-year-old man who underwent a craniotomy for a subdural haematoma and presented a decade later with worsening neurological symptoms. Investigation revealed the cause to be a delayed foreign body reaction to a retained cotton wool pledget.
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spelling pubmed-68787212019-12-03 Differential diagnosis for a ring-enhancing lesion on CT/MRI brain: retained cotton ball pledget Hughes, Luke D J Surg Case Rep Case Report New or persisting symptoms require careful evaluation and investigation. We present a case report of a 58-year-old man who underwent a craniotomy for a subdural haematoma and presented a decade later with worsening neurological symptoms. Investigation revealed the cause to be a delayed foreign body reaction to a retained cotton wool pledget. Oxford University Press 2019-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6878721/ /pubmed/31798826 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz339 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author(s) 2019. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Differential diagnosis for a ring-enhancing lesion on CT/MRI brain: retained cotton ball pledget
title Differential diagnosis for a ring-enhancing lesion on CT/MRI brain: retained cotton ball pledget
title_full Differential diagnosis for a ring-enhancing lesion on CT/MRI brain: retained cotton ball pledget
title_fullStr Differential diagnosis for a ring-enhancing lesion on CT/MRI brain: retained cotton ball pledget
title_full_unstemmed Differential diagnosis for a ring-enhancing lesion on CT/MRI brain: retained cotton ball pledget
title_short Differential diagnosis for a ring-enhancing lesion on CT/MRI brain: retained cotton ball pledget
title_sort differential diagnosis for a ring-enhancing lesion on ct/mri brain: retained cotton ball pledget
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6878721/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31798826
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz339
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