Penetrating maxillofacial trauma with transmaxillary migration of a metallic foreign body to the sphenoid sinus: A rare case

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Emrah Işıktekin told of a rare and dangerous face injury in a case report from twenty twenty-six. A nineteen-year-old man hurt the right side of his face during farm work. The cut was stitched shut with no deep check, and two days later he came to hospital with headache and fatigue. Scans told the true story.

A large, crescent-shaped piece of metal sat inside his face, its tip lodged below the skull base, through a sinus and under the brain's hormone gland. Its base reached toward the nose, close to branches of a major face artery. Surgeons took it out through the old wound, under full anesthesia, with a careful turning move. The author warns that face cuts must be fully checked and imaged before they are closed, since a mild-looking wound can hide metal near vital parts.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13561073