Adult nasal metal foreign bodies: 2 cases report.
- Author:
Mulan LI
;
Jieen LI
- Publication Type:Case Reports
- MeSH:
Adult;
Blindness;
Epistaxis;
Facial Injuries;
Foreign Bodies;
diagnosis;
Head;
Humans;
Metals;
Nasal Cavity;
pathology;
Occupational Injuries;
pathology
- From:
Journal of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
2015;29(9):856-858
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
To analysis the data of 2 patients who had nasal metal foreign bodies after the pressure cooker explosion, the main clinical symptoms include head facial swelling after trauma, nose bleeding, or vision loss, etc. Specialized examination: facial swelling, the left eye content of one patient has been removed, the other patient's right side of the nasal dorsal skin was missing, which diameter was about 1.5 cm, and nasal cavity was interlinked. We could see that metal foreign bodies blocked the bilateral nasal cavity of the two patients. And emergency CT examination showed that most of the nasal cavity reserved for high-density foreign body. Two patients were diagnosed: (1) metal foreign bodies after nasal trauma; (2) nose bleeding.
