• Acta neurochirurgica · Oct 2009

    Case Reports

    Removal of a chopstick out of the cavernous sinus, pons, and cerebellar vermis through the superior orbital fissure.

    • Delphine Mitilian, Brigitte Charon, Francis Brunelle, and Federico Di Rocco.
    • Department of Paediatric Neurosurgery, Necker Enfants Malades Hospital, 156 rue de Vaugirard, 75015 Paris, France.
    • Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2009 Oct 1;151(10):1295-7.

    AbstractPenetrating non-missile orbito cranial injuries are rare in a civilian pediatric setting. We describe a case of a trans-orbital penetration by a wooden chopstick deep down into the cerebellar vermis detected at neuroradiological examination in a child presenting for head injury. The foreign body was successfully pulled out in one piece surgically.

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