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Management of a nail impalement injury to the brain in a non-neurosurgical centre: A case report and review of the literature

A nail impalement injury to the brain usually results from accidents like falls or nail gun miss-fires or suicide attempts or from barbaric punishment for certain crimes which are rarely practiced in some remote areas. We present an unusual, intentional, self-impalement of a 4 in. nail into the brai...

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Autores principales: Agu, Chika Thaddeus, Orjiaku, Mathew Emeka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4756179/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26745316
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2015.12.035