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[Transoral Penetrating Cranial Injury by a Chopstick:A Case Report].
No Shinkei Geka. Neurological Surgery 2017 August
Intracranial injury resultant from a chopstick penetrating the oral cavity is often fatal in children, and only 5 clinical cases have been reported. If the depth of penetration is indeterminable, due to the chopstick being removed or the remaining piece not being located, then injury management is challenging; here, we report such a case. A 26-month-old girl fell over with a plastic chopstick in her mouth. The chopstick was removed immediately and without breakage by her father. He noted that around 3 cm of the pointed end had pierced the palate. CT revealed air bubbles in the retropharyngeal space but no abnormality in the cranium. Subsequent complications included bacterial meningitis and right hemiparesis but neither MRI nor any alternative imaging modality could aid in locating the intracranial lesion that induced the weakness. Neurological findings suggested injury of the right lateral corticospinal tract at the lower end of the medulla oblongata. An axial T2-weighted MRI showed a 30-mm high signal path of penetration from the posterior nasopharyngeal wall to the dura at the craniocervical junction. When the route is extended 36 mm intracranially from the wound orifice, the path makes superficial contact with the right lateral portion of the medulla oblongata, which corresponds with the lateral corticospinal tract. We therefore hypothesize that this was the lesion location but that it was too small to be detected using MRI.
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