Surgical management of compound skull fracture with exposed brain matter in a third-world country

We hereby present a case of a 6-year-old boy with exposed brain matter following traumatic injury from a road traffic accident, in a third-world country with poor healthcare resources. The patient was taken immediately to operating theater where two general surgeons performed an emergent craniotomy...

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Autores principales: Kim, Young, Morris, Mackenzie C, Lee, Tiffany C, Earnest, Ryan E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6507808/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31086656
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz147
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description We hereby present a case of a 6-year-old boy with exposed brain matter following traumatic injury from a road traffic accident, in a third-world country with poor healthcare resources. The patient was taken immediately to operating theater where two general surgeons performed an emergent craniotomy and debridement. The patient survived the injury and surgery without neurological deficits or other surgical complications. He was discharged home in good condition.
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spelling pubmed-65078082019-05-13 Surgical management of compound skull fracture with exposed brain matter in a third-world country Kim, Young Morris, Mackenzie C Lee, Tiffany C Earnest, Ryan E J Surg Case Rep Case Report We hereby present a case of a 6-year-old boy with exposed brain matter following traumatic injury from a road traffic accident, in a third-world country with poor healthcare resources. The patient was taken immediately to operating theater where two general surgeons performed an emergent craniotomy and debridement. The patient survived the injury and surgery without neurological deficits or other surgical complications. He was discharged home in good condition. Oxford University Press 2019-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6507808/ /pubmed/31086656 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz147 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author(s) 2019. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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