TY - JOUR ID - 39965 TI - Two Sewing Needles in the Brain: A Case Re-port JO - Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences JA - IJMS LA - en SN - 0253-0716 AU - Ashrafi, Hamid AU - Boostani, R. AU - Nazarbaghi, S. AD - Y1 - 2007 PY - 2007 VL - 32 IS - 4 SP - 254 EP - 255 KW - foreign body KW - Brain KW - Needles DO - N2 - Brain foreign bodies and penetrating missile injuries of the brain are familiar topics for Iranian physicians, especially after Iran and Iraq war. But it’s not easily plausible that there is a couple of sewing needles in the cranium of a patient who has not any history of head trauma or penetrating injury. The patient was a 42-year-old man who admitted in neurology ward of Mottahari Hospital in Urmia city with a complaint of headache. Brain computed tomography revealed some hyperdense foci with artifact shadows adjacent to them in frontoparietal region of the brain. Skull plain radiography indicated two sewing needles in his cranium. Probably these needles were inserted in cranial fossa at infancy when the fontanels were steel patent. UR - https://ijms.sums.ac.ir/article_39965.html L1 - https://ijms.sums.ac.ir/article_39965_7bbaddad2fcc0e18ee5ff698dd2e009f.pdf ER -