Observation of successful treatment of acute subdural hematoma in the posterior cranial fossa due to penetrating eye injury
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https://doi.org/10.25305/unj.51881Keywords:
cranio-orbital injury, penetrating eye injury, acute subdural hematoma, cerebellar hemisphere, posterior cranial fossaAbstract
The observation of penetrating cranio-orbital injury by sharp object at fall from a high is presented. The foreign object passed along the right orbit medial wall and penetrated to the middle cranial fossa through the upper palpebral fissure. Further promotion of the object arose damage of cerebellar structures and tentorium with focal intracerebral lesions and acute subdural hematoma of the posterior cranial fossa.
Clinically, the eye injury manifested by paraorbital hematoma, subconjuctival hemorrhage, fixed mydriasis, exophthalmos, and total right ophthalmoplegia, compression of the cerebellum — by the subdural hematoma and progressive consciousness impairment. The wound channel direction was visualized on MRI (with serial sections 1 mm) in subacute period.
Right occipital bone resectional craniotomy was performed, Torkildsen ventriculo-cisternal shunt was placed, subdural hematoma was removed totally. The patient was discharged with improvement. According to a 6-month dynamic observation, there were no pyo-inflammatory complications.
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