A nasogastric tube in the sphenoid sinus.

Abstract

A 37 year old woman with secondary infertility had been advised by her general practitioner to record her basal body temperature vaginally. One morning she presented to a casualty department complaining that she could not remove the thermometer. Vaginal examination and a radiograph of the pelvis (figure) suggested that the thermometer was in the bladder. This was confirmed at cytoscopy, when the thermometer was removed under general anaesthesia with stone crushing forceps whose jaws were shod with rubber cylinders cut from a latex catheter. The patient made a full recovery and was discharged the next day.Inadvertent insertion of a thermometer into the bladder during recording of vaginal temperature has been reported many times before, and we think it time that doctors stopped advising women to record their basal temperatures Vaginally: oral recording is safe and

Nasoenteric Tube Complications

“…2). This most commonly occurs in the setting of facial trauma or skull base surgery (43,44). Trauma-related risks include basilar skull fractures involving the cribiform plate or comminuted skull base fractures involving anterior cranial fossa (45).…”