TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - Coat hanger injury
JO  - Journal of emergency medicine
A1  - Kaushik, Vivek
A1  - Kawaja, Sadie
A1  - Bhalla, Rajiv K.
A1  - Pahade, Avinash
SP  - 477
EP  - 478
VL  - 29
IS  - 4
N2  - This is a case report of a 60-year-old woman who presented to the Emergency Department after an altercation with her husband. She had tried to 'swipe' her husband with a coat hanger, but missed. She did, however, manage to strike herself resulting in the hanger hooking through her nose.    The traumatic entry of a foreign body into the nose is uncommon. In such cases there is the possibility of occult intracranial or orbital penetration, particularly with non-metallic objects that are not readily seen on plain radiographs and CT scans.    Coat hanger injuries are probably rare. A search of the world literature yielded only one prior case report of a coat hanger injury [H.F. Moustafa and M.R. Ho, Coat hanger tip injury, J Emerg Med 17 (1999), p. 735].
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SN  - 0736-4679
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jemermed.2005.02.018
ID  - ref1
ER  -