Kolkata: The doctor at a private neurological hospital in Kolkata has saved a 50-year-old man who has a needle placed in his nose cavity near the brain, performs operations by opening a part of the skull.
A senior doctor Institute of Neurosciences Kolkata (ink) said that they did craniotomy carried out, a process was generally used to remove brain tumors or abnormal brain tissue, in men recently.
“The man came to us with a history of bleeding one day from the nose after he admitted.
When he came to us, he was drunk and we did not know whether he had an injury or someone had hit him.
So we decided to do an injury.
So we decided to do it .
CT scan the skull which shows that the needle is extended from his nose until his brain, “said the doctor.
Even though it has metal objects in the nasal cavity, the man is clinically ok and fully conscious.
“He speaks normally, moves up the upper and lower limbs as usual and is able to walk, eat, and drink like a normal person.
We have to do an angiogram to describe the right root where the needle is crossed from the nose to the brain.
We decided to enter for Basic skull operation, “he said.
The patient’s skull must open first and then the needle is pulled out of the nose, the doctor said which is part of the team that performs the operation.
“It is important to open the opening of the skull skull, so the needle is pulled out of the nose and we can overcome a torn injury that can occur in the main blood vessels in the brain,” he said.
The patient recovered well after surgery because he only had a small problem such as local nasal bleeding managed using a simple ice package and he was dismissed after three days.
However, it is not clear how the needle entered his nose cavity.
“The main point that must be noted in this case is that this is a foreign object and through a relatively dirty (nose) area and polluting a very clean area, the cranial cavity (which contains the brain and all the main blood of the ship),” he explained.
According to the doctor, the operation needs to be carried out based on priority “or infection can spread through the needle from the nose to the brain”.
The doctor then sealed the small hole left after removing the needle from the nose to stop the leak of the cerebrospinal fluid from the cranial cavity or it could cause infection to spread from the nose to the brain.
“Patients are fine but he needs long-term follow-up in the form of CT scanning to override brain abscess (a condition of painful pus collections, usually caused by bacterial infections) and angiograms to put aside every development of delayed aneurysms (bulges in blood vessels) , “he said.
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