Author(s)

Serdar Cevik^1*, Serkan Kitis², Fatih Calis², Celaleddin Soyalp³, Emre Ozoran⁴

¹Department of Neurosurgery, Agri State Hospital, Agri, Turkey.
²Department of Neurosurgery, Bezmialem University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey.
³Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Agri State Hospital, Agri, Turkey.
⁴Department of Surgery, Agri State Hospital, Agri, Turkey.

Air guns and rifles are usually considered to be harmless. Even though these firearms are categorized as toys, injuries with these are quite common in children and adolescents. The most common reason for these types of injuries is accidents and negligence. In this case report we present a 17-year-old male, admitted to the emergency department with a 5 mm incision below his left eye. In the CT imaging a pellet was seen lodged in the cribriform plate. It pierced through the ethmoid sinus. The patient was admitted to the inpatient clinic and managed conservatively with antibiotherapy. A review of literature was performed to find out the best strategy to reach an optimized outcome and evaluate probable complications.

Air Gun, Pellet, Cribriform Plate

Cevik, S. , Kitis, S. , Calis, F. , Soyalp, C. and Ozoran, E. (2016) Case Report: Air Gun Pellet Injury to the Cribriform Plate of a Young Male. Open Journal of Modern Neurosurgery, 6, 37-40. doi: 10.4236/ojmn.2016.61007.