A nearly missed foreign body in frontal sinus: case report

Authors

  • Nurul Alya Binti Azwan Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Bintulu Hospital, Sarawak, Malaysia
  • Ram Kumar Sharma Shanmugam Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Bintulu Hospital, Sarawak, Malaysia
  • Kong Yin Teng Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Bintulu Hospital, Sarawak, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/issn.2454-5929.ijohns20200164

Keywords:

Foreign body, Frontal sinus, Trauma

Abstract

Foreign body in paranasal sinus is rare. Very few cases have been reported of lodgement of foreign body in paranasal sinuses. Garces and Norris reported that 70% of these foreign bodies usually appeared after maxillofacial traumas and 30% appeared during or after dental procedures of maxilla. Foreign bodies are less common in the frontal sinus as compared to maxillary sinus. This is a case of foreign body in frontal sinus in an eighteen-year-old gentleman after a road traffic accident.

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Published

2020-01-24

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2020): February 2020

Section

Case Reports