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A 61-year-old man was wheeled in to our emergency triage bleeding profusely from his mouth and nose in an unconscious state. His Glasgow Coma Scale was 7 and was intubated for airway safety. A failed anterior nasal packing was followed by insertion of a Foley urinary catheter through the right nostril to secure posterior nasal packing and haemostasis. CT of the brain following nasal packing showed diffuse traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage and basifrontal contusions with multiple fractures of the anterior cranial fossa, cribriform plate including the frontal sinus. Multiple specs of air in the frontal lobe was initially mistaken as pneumocephalus (Hounsfield unit –971) (figure 1). The Foley catheter had inadvertently found its way to the brain through the cribriform plate, and the bulb was inflated just above the defect (figure 2). The catheter was deflated and removed soon after imaging. The patient underwent a...
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