| CASE REPORT |
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| Year : 2009 | Volume
: 57
| Issue : 2 | Page : 208--210 |
A delayed frontorbital abscess caused by a penetrating nonmissile foreign body (A bamboo stick)
Wen-ke Liu, Lu Ma, Bo-yong Mao
Department of Neurosurgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan province, China
Correspondence Address:
Bo-yong Mao
Department of Neurosurgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, 610 041
China
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DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.51299
We report an interesting case of delayed frontal abscess caused by a penetrating nonmissile foreign body, a bamboo stick in a 1.5-year-old male child. A parietal craniotomy was performed, and the brain abscess was resected along with the foreign body without any damage to the surrounding brain tissue. He also received the appropriate antibiotics. The child made a good recovery.
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