An unusual clinical case of a foreign body in the practice of an otorhinolaryngologist

This article will consider a unique clinical case of an accidental finding of a metallic foreign body in the form of a rod (sewing needle) in the cranial cavity of a 71-year-old patient admitted to the city budgetary healthcare institution of St. Petersburg City Hospital No 26. Prior to the examination, the patient didn’t know about the existence of this foreign body and couldn’t provide any anamnestic information about how it could have entered the cranial cavity. Most likely, it was introduced into the cranial cavity in infancy through a not yet ossified fontanelle. Unfortunately, even in the last century, this practice of killing newborn children was very common, but not all babies died after such manipulations.