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Ultrasongraphy prior to exploration
- Mahamoud M Gabal (27 February 2007)
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Mahamoud M Gabal, Radiologist
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hindoma{at}yahoo.com Mahamoud M Gabal
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Dear Editor Negative exploration results dose not denote absence of foreign bodies. It is interesting to describe an unusual case. 12 years old boy explored twice with negative results for foreign bodies. By plain X ray there was no foreign body. By ultrasonography the wooden foreign body was located at the FPL tendon in its long axis. at the time of soft tissue abscess formation the tendon was in reactive stage so he had exploration twice with negative results .Intratendinous wooden foreign body is extremely rare . This is a extremely rare finding by ultrasonography . So ultrasonography should be the first imaging modality prior to exploration ... thanks |
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