Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society

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Mysterious Foreign Body in Transverse Sinus

  • Oh, Chang-Hyun (Seoul Regional Military Manpower Administration) ;
  • Hyun, Dong-Keun (Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Inha University)
  • Received : 2011.03.01
  • Accepted : 2012.03.19
  • Published : 2012.03.28
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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.

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