It seems difficult to think of a vessel less suitable for all sorts of garbage than a human head. Be that as it may, doctors have repeatedly extracted the strangest and most unusual things from the human skull. Today we are going to tell you about the five most interesting objects that, for various reasons, hit people in the head.
In 2007, Aaron Dallas from Colorado went to see a doctor after discovering strange, bleeding bumps on the top of his head that moved strangely under the skin when pressed. Doctors discovered that 5 gadfly larvae had been deposited into the man's scalp, which had apparently lived there since the trip to Belize, former British Honduras.
In 2014, The New England Journal Of Medicine reported a 4-month-old infant who had a brain tumor surgically removed. Upon examination, the doctors discovered that the tumor contained several fully formed … teeth. This is the so-called craniopharyngioma, the rarest type of brain tumor. Doctors previously believed that it is formed from the same cells as teeth, but this is the first time they have seen such a vivid confirmation of this.
In the January 2014 issue of the Journal of Medical Cases, doctors in South Korea revealed that a 13-year-old boy unsuccessfully fell in a classroom, leaving him unconscious for several minutes. When the doctors performed a CT scan, they found an "air-filled tubular structure" in the right sinus area. Yes, you guessed it: the mysterious object turned out to be the tip of a ballpoint pen measuring 8x1 cm.
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Scientists have found that ears are more likely to become a receptacle for foreign bodies than nasal openings. In 2014, NBC News reported that a 48-year-old woman complaining of ear pain had become the "lucky" owner of a fruit fly larva in her hearing aid. Doctors say the animal was discovered by accident while crawling into the left ear canal.
In a 2007 article in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry, an 18-year-old teenager sustained injury to his right parietal region in a motorcycle accident. 9 months later, experiencing mental and behavioral problems, he again consulted a doctor. X-ray scans showed an area of the brain requiring immediate surgery. During the operation, the doctors discovered nothing more than a piece of cotton gauze, which they accidentally forgot during the last autopsy. After removal of the foreign body, all symptoms of the patient disappeared.
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As we all remember, recently Indian doctors removed from the head of an adult woman a live (and, frankly, rather big) cockroach, which climbed into her through the nasal opening while the patient was sleeping. This, however, is not limited to curious and sometimes disgusting cases from medical practice. Household appliances, insects and even fragments of dressing material - this and much more gets into a person's head at times in very extraordinary ways.
Vasily Makarov