Brain Brushing
Foreign Body in Brain
Phew, now we’ve got a run of foreign body lodgements in other parts of the body.
20th December 2004, Vancouver, Canada
A 49-year-old man presented at the emergency department of a local hospital complaining of a minor headache and some eye swelling.
He also had a small cut on his cheek. He reported being punched in the eye around six hours earlier. Despite his injuries, the man was alert and had no signs of neurological deficit.
Doctors performed a CT scan of the man’s head and were surprised to find that it showed a cylindrical shaped foreign body lodged in his brain. The man required surgery to remove the foreign body, which revealed itself to be a 10.5cm long paintbrush. The brush had penetrated from the left orbit of the man’s eye to the right thalamus.
Fortunately, the man made a complete recovery from his ordeal. How did the brush get into the man’s brain? We can only assume it was through the initial assault or perhaps a fall after the assault.
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