Neuroimaging of a Wooden Foreign Body Retained for 5 Months in the Temporalis Muscle Following Penetrating Trauma with a Chopstick: —Case Report—

Neurologia medico-chirurgica

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 744-747

  Ochiai, Hidenobu ^a   Yamakawa, Yuzo ^a   Fukushima, Tsuyoshi ^a   Yamada, Hiroki ^a  

^a MIYAZAKI PREFECTURAL MIYAZAKI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

chopstick; magnetic resonance imaging; temporalis muscle; wooden foreign body granuloma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; GRANULOMA; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PENETRATING TRAUMA;

CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; SPOUSE ABUSE; TEMPORAL MUSCLE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOOD; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 0032725430     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.39.744     Document Type: Article

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