Penetrating Sacral Injury with a Wooden Foreign Body

Case Reports in Medicine
Arash FattahiAlireza Dastmalchi

Abstract

Spinal penetrating trauma has a complex neurosurgical management. This study presents a 55-year-old male admitted in our center with a 1 × 1 centimeter laceration on the sacral area skin due to a wooden penetrating object. The computed tomography (CT) of the spine revealed a hypodense penetrating object that was introduced from the posterior aspect of the sacrum into dural space and then stopped in the S1 vertebral body. We performed a laminectomy of intact superior portion of the S1 lamina and released the wood from the surrounding bone, and finally, we pulled it out.

References

May 18, 2006·Journal of Neurosurgery. Spine·Kiarash ShahlaieJohn T Anderson
Jul 28, 2010·Clinical Medicine & Research·Eric R AndersonMark Weissman
Apr 19, 2012·Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria·Regis Tavares da SilvaPaulo Cesar Rocha Oliveira

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Dec 22, 2020·African Journal of Paediatric Surgery : AJPS·Enono YhoshuManish Kumar Gupta

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