J Korean Neurosurg Soc.  2012 Mar;51(3):167-169. 10.3340/jkns.2012.51.3.167.

Mysterious Foreign Body in Transverse Sinus

• Oh CH
• Hyun D

• KMID: 2018193
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3340/jkns.2012.51.3.167

Abstract

This case report describes a patient who had a foreign body in transverse sinus. A 35-year-old Korean-Chinese man visited the emergency room with lacerated wound in left eyelid and a foreign body which was stumbled upon in the skull. On examination, there was right side hemianopsia in his left eye. He did not complain any headache or show any abnormal neurological signs, but there was a foreign body at left transverse sinus in computed tomography which was taken at another hospital. There was no intracranial abnormality except the foreign body in computed tomography. Because of the financial problem, additional evaluations were not possible. We herein report a strange case in which the pathway of a foreign body to locate in transverse sinus was ambiguous, and suggest that the foreign body located in transverse sinus might have been the penetrated along the anterior fontanelle and passed through the superior sagittal sinus.

Keyword

Foreign body; Skull; Accident; Fontanelle; Sinus

MeSH Terms

Adult
Cranial Fontanelles
Emergencies
Eye
Eyelids
Foreign Bodies
Headache
Hemianopsia
Humans
Skull
Superior Sagittal Sinus

Figure

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  Fig. 1 The skull radiographs and computed tomography of the patient with a foreign body in left transverse sinus. A, B and C : The skull radiographs with a foreign body located in left transverse sinus area. D and E : The computed tomography with a foreign body which is not associated with the brain parenchymal injury or the skull fracture. F : The schematic figure of the sinuses and the foreign body.

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