Brazilian Neurosurgery (Mar 2017)

Tooth in Intracranial Compartment after Traumatic Brain Injury

  • Benedito J. A. Pereira,
  • Radmila Agra Cariry Targino de Holanda,
  • José Targino Neto,
  • Luciano Ferreira de Holanda

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1597773
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 36, no. 01
pp. 26 – 28

Abstract

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A 25-year-old patient was admitted to the emergency room presenting headaches after a traumatic brain injury (TBI) 30 days before, when he collided frontally with another driver. After a skull radiography, the presence of a foreign body was observed in the frontal sinus. A cranial computed tomography (CT) scan found that it was a tooth. The patient underwent surgical treatment for the removal of the tooth. Traumatic brain injury caused by non-missile penetrating objects is unusual, and has been described in case reports in the literature. To the best of our knowledge, no similar reports can be found in the literature.

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