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Preoperative photographs of the patient's facial trauma secondary to impalement by a reclining chair lever, both on arrival to the emergency room (a) and in the operating room (b).
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The patient is an 87-year-old female who presented after falling on a reclining chair lever, resulting in penetrating trauma to the left face [Figure 1].
Preoperative (a) and postoperative (b) axial, coronal, and sagittal computed tomography images of the repair site. The far-right images represent 3D reconstructions of the skull trauma and subsequent repair.
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It further extended into the intracranial space resulting in bifrontal contusion and intraparenchymal hemorrhage [Figure 2].