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Removal of a chopstick out of the cavernous sinus, pons, and cerebellar vermis through the superior orbital fissure

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Penetrating non-missile orbito cranial injuries are rare in a civilian pediatric setting. We describe a case of a trans-orbital penetration by a wooden chopstick deep down into the cerebellar vermis detected at neuroradiological examination in a child presenting for head injury. The foreign body was successfully pulled out in one piece surgically.

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  1. Department of Paediatric Neurosurgery, Necker Enfants Malades Hospital, 156 rue de Vaugirard, 75015, Paris, France

    Delphine Mitilian & Federico Di Rocco

  2. Department of Paediatric Anaesthesiology and Neurosurgical intensive care unit, Necker Enfants Malades Hospital, Paris, France

    Brigitte Charon

  3. Department of Neuroradiology, Necker Enfants Malades Hospital, Paris, France

    Francis Brunelle

  4. René Descartes University, Paris V, France

    Delphine Mitilian & Federico Di Rocco

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Mitilian, D., Charon, B., Brunelle, F. et al. Removal of a chopstick out of the cavernous sinus, pons, and cerebellar vermis through the superior orbital fissure. Acta Neurochir 151, 1295–1297 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-009-0418-y

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