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Background: With the insurgency and farmer-herder crisis in northeast Nigeria, arrow injuries with various fatalities have been on the increase. Practicing in a low-resource setting with no functional computed tomography (CT) scan necessitates utmost dependence on plain X-rays for decision-making in patient care.
Case Description: We present our experience with a patient who presented in our facility with a right transorbital subfrontal arrow injury. The patient had retrograde extraction of the arrow based on plain X-ray findings with no sequelae.
Conclusion: We highlighted the role of X-ray in the management of arrow injuries, although bone window CT without or with angiography is the gold standard of imaging modalities in the management of patients with arrow injuries to the head.
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