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Published in: Insights into Imaging 1/2021

Open Access 01-12-2021 | Computed Tomography | Critical Review

Imaging foreign bodies in head and neck trauma: a pictorial review

Authors: Jan Oliver Voss, Christoph Maier, Jonas Wüster, Benedicta Beck-Broichsitter, Tobias Ebker, Jana Vater, Steffen Dommerich, Jan D. Raguse, Georg Böning, Nadine Thieme

Published in: Insights into Imaging | Issue 1/2021

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Abstract

Open injuries bear the risk of foreign body contamination. Commonly encountered materials include gravel debris, glass fragments, wooden splinters or metal particles. While foreign body incorporation is obvious in some injury patterns, other injuries may not display hints of being contaminated with foreign body materials. Foreign objects that have not been detected and removed bear the risk of leading to severe wound infections and chronic wound healing disorders. Besides these severe health issues, medicolegal consequences should be considered. While an accurate clinical examination is the first step for the detection of foreign body materials, choosing the appropriate radiological imaging is decisive for the detection or non-detection of the foreign material. Especially in cases of impaired wound healing over time, the existence of an undetected foreign object needs to be considered.
Here, we would like to give a practical radiological guide for the assessment of foreign objects in head and neck injuries by a special selection of patients with different injury patterns and various foreign body materials with regard to the present literature.
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Metadata
Title
Imaging foreign bodies in head and neck trauma: a pictorial review
Authors
Jan Oliver Voss
Christoph Maier
Jonas Wüster
Benedicta Beck-Broichsitter
Tobias Ebker
Jana Vater
Steffen Dommerich
Jan D. Raguse
Georg Böning
Nadine Thieme
Publication date
01-12-2021
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Published in
Insights into Imaging / Issue 1/2021
Electronic ISSN: 1869-4101
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13244-021-00969-9

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