Citation

Chunhua Q, Qun W. J. Craniofac. Surg. 2014; 25(2): e109-10.

Affiliation

From the Department of Neurosurgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/SCS.0000000000000439

PMID

24621748

Abstract

A 40-year-old man presented with recent recurrent seizures. He was operated on to resect the right temporal mass with a foreign body, a pencil lead. The foreign body had entered the brain parenchyma for an accident in a child without apparent head injury, sustained for 30 years. He was asymptomatic for the intervening 30 years. It is rare that a pencil lead totally penetrated with an inapparent transtemporal closed head injury. The case may caution neurosurgeons to make the complete diagnosis of retained intracranial foreign bodies and thinking of need for early surgical exploration, to avoid chronic and potentially life-threatening neurological complications.

Language: en