Nail Gun Induced Open Head Injury: A Case Report

Increasing use of the nail gun has led to higher injury rates from the use of tools with sequential actuation. Nail gun injury can occur to various parts of the body. Very deep penetration in the brain can have fatal results. A 46-year-old male fired shots from a nail gun into his brain in a suicide...

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Autores principales: Oh, Hyun Ho, Kim, Young, Park, Sung Choon, Ha, Young Soo, Lee, Kyu Chang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Neurotraumatology Society 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4852606/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27169051
http://dx.doi.org/10.13004/kjnt.2014.10.2.139
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author Oh, Hyun Ho
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description Increasing use of the nail gun has led to higher injury rates from the use of tools with sequential actuation. Nail gun injury can occur to various parts of the body. Very deep penetration in the brain can have fatal results. A 46-year-old male fired shots from a nail gun into his brain in a suicide attempt. This case demonstrated successful surgical management of the resultant open head injury.
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spelling pubmed-48526062016-05-10 Nail Gun Induced Open Head Injury: A Case Report Oh, Hyun Ho Kim, Young Park, Sung Choon Ha, Young Soo Lee, Kyu Chang Korean J Neurotrauma Case Report Increasing use of the nail gun has led to higher injury rates from the use of tools with sequential actuation. Nail gun injury can occur to various parts of the body. Very deep penetration in the brain can have fatal results. A 46-year-old male fired shots from a nail gun into his brain in a suicide attempt. This case demonstrated successful surgical management of the resultant open head injury. Korean Neurotraumatology Society 2014-10 2014-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4852606/ /pubmed/27169051 http://dx.doi.org/10.13004/kjnt.2014.10.2.139 Text en Copyright © 2014 Korean Neurotraumatology 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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