CASE 273: FOREIGN BODY on HEAD, Dr LÊ THỐNG NHẤT- Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM

Male patient 33 yo from Ca mau province.

For 20 days before Medic admission, patient had been hurt by a stabbing wound by bamboo chopstick at his right temporal region.

But after a first-aid bandage, the wound was getting swollen and infected, then he came up to Medic Center .

Ultrasound at Medic detected foreign body into the wound which was correlated to a part of bamboo chopstick.

MSCT of the head showed a tubular object  in the right temporal region.

Patient  underwent  a surgery to remove the foreign body at the same day. Specimen was a part of bamboo chopstick of 6cm length.

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