木箸による鼻内刺傷致死の1例

　緒言

　鼻腔内に篏入せる異物によつて惹起されたる外傷症例は敢えて珍らしきものには非らざれども，著者は最近木箸により誤りて鼻孔より頭蓋底骨に刺傷して不帰の機転をとりたる幼児の興味ある1例に遭遇したので此処に報告する。

GOTO reports a case of nasal foreign body which led to the death of the patient. An in-fant 21 months of age accidently introduced a chop stick in its nasal cavity that pierced the roof of the nose to enter the cranium, The fo-riegn body was removed 50 hours later with very little nasal bleeding but considerable hem-orrhage had apparently occurred in the cerebr-al cavity with the evidence showing in the ex-amination of the spinal fluid. Subsequently the pateint developed high fever which was somew-hat reponsive to aminopyrene but not to the use of penicillin, streptomycin and aureomycin.

The patient died on the 21st day following the accident.