Serious Penetrating Craniocerebral Injury Caused by a Nail Gun

Penetrating cerebral injuries caused by foreign bodies occur rarely due to the substantial mechanical protection offered by the skull. Throughout most of history, the brain, residing in a "closed box" of bone, has not been vulnerable to external aggression. Recently, we encountered a serio...

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Autores principales: Jeon, Yong Hyun, Kim, Dong Min, Kim, Sung Hoon, Kim, Seok Won
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Neurosurgical Society 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4303736/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25628820
http://dx.doi.org/10.3340/jkns.2014.56.6.537
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description Penetrating cerebral injuries caused by foreign bodies occur rarely due to the substantial mechanical protection offered by the skull. Throughout most of history, the brain, residing in a "closed box" of bone, has not been vulnerable to external aggression. Recently, we encountered a serious penetrating craniocerebral injury caused by a nail gun. Total excision of the offending nail via emergency craniotomy was performed, but the patient's neurologic status was not improved in spite of aggressive rehabilitative treatment. Here, we report on this troublesome case in light of a review of the relevant literature.
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spelling pubmed-43037362015-01-27 Serious Penetrating Craniocerebral Injury Caused by a Nail Gun Jeon, Yong Hyun Kim, Dong Min Kim, Sung Hoon Kim, Seok Won J Korean Neurosurg Soc Case Report Penetrating cerebral injuries caused by foreign bodies occur rarely due to the substantial mechanical protection offered by the skull. Throughout most of history, the brain, residing in a "closed box" of bone, has not been vulnerable to external aggression. Recently, we encountered a serious penetrating craniocerebral injury caused by a nail gun. Total excision of the offending nail via emergency craniotomy was performed, but the patient's neurologic status was not improved in spite of aggressive rehabilitative treatment. Here, we report on this troublesome case in light of a review of the relevant literature. The Korean Neurosurgical Society 2014-12 2014-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4303736/ /pubmed/25628820 http://dx.doi.org/10.3340/jkns.2014.56.6.537 Text en Copyright © 2014 The Korean Neurosurgical Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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