An unusual foreign body: a ball bearing in the posterior ethmoid sinus

Kulak Burun Bogaz Ihtis Derg. 2006;16(5):221-3.

Abstract

Globe perforation was detected in an 18-year-old male patient having total vision loss in the left eye following a car accident. The middle meatus could not be evaluated by sinonasal endoscopy because of edema. Computed tomography showed a foreign body in the left posterior ethmoid sinus, with a trajectory coursing from the globe to the lamina papyracea, and the posterior ethmoid sinus. Endoscopic sinus surgery was performed including a left uncinectomy, anterior and posterior ethmoidectomies, and the foreign body was removed from the posterior ethmoid sinus using ethmoid forceps. It turned out to be a ball bearing. After three months of follow-up, the patient had no evidence for rhinologic sequelae.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Accidents, Traffic
  • Adolescent
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Endoscopy
  • Ethmoid Sinus*
  • Eye Foreign Bodies / diagnosis*
  • Eye Foreign Bodies / diagnostic imaging
  • Eye Foreign Bodies / pathology
  • Eye Foreign Bodies / surgery
  • Eye Injuries / diagnosis*
  • Eye Injuries / diagnostic imaging
  • Eye Injuries / pathology
  • Eye Injuries / surgery
  • Humans
  • Injury Severity Score
  • Male
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed