An unusual foreign body: a ball bearing in the posterior ethmoid sinüs

Year 2006, Volume: 16 Issue: 5, 221 - 223, 14.10.2006

Mehmet Eken Arif Şanlı Sedat Aydın Ömer Taşdemir

Abstract

Globe perforation was detected in an 18-year-old male patient having total Vision loss in the left eye following a car accident. The middle meatus could not be evaluated by sinonasal endoscopy because of edema. Computed tomography showed a foreign body in the left posterior ethmoid sinüs, with a trajectory coursing from the globe to the lamina papyracea, and the posterior ethmoid sinüs. Endoscopic sinüs surgery was performed including a left uncinectomy, anterior and posterior ethmoidectomies, and the for­ eign body was removed from the posterior ethmoid sinüs using an ethmoid forceps. İt turned out to be a ball bearing. After three months of follow-up, the patient had no evidence for rhinologic sequelae.

Keywords

Endoscopy, ethmoid sinüs, foreign body

Posterior etmoid sinüste alışılmadık bir yabancı cisim: Bilye

Abstract

Araç dışı trafik kazası nedeniyle sol gözünde görme- de total kayıp olan 18 yaşındaki erkek hastada glob perforasyonu saptandı. Sinonazal endoskopide ödem nedeniyle orta meatus değerlendirilemedi. Bil- gisayarlı tomografide sol posterior etmoid sinüste yabancı cisim görüldü. Yabancı cismin yolunun glob, lamina paprisea ve posterior etmoid sinüs olduğu iz- lendi. Endoskopik sinüs cerrahisinde sol unsinekto- mi sonrasında anterior ve posterior etmoidektomi yapıldı. Sol posterior etmoid sinüsteki yabancı cisim forseps yardımıyla çıkartıldı. Cismin arabalardaki rulmanların bilyelerinden olduğu anlaşıldı. Yapılan üç aylık kontrolde rinolojik herhangi bir sekel bulun- madı

Keywords

Endoskopi, etmoid sinüs, yabancı cisim

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