Case Report: Projectile Into Right Frontal Lobe From a Nail Gun

We present a case of a nail gun injury penetrating the right maxillary sinus and frontal lobe with complaints of headache and right eye blindness. After surgical removal and treatment, there were no neurological deficits aside from the persistence of right eye blindness that the patient initially pr...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Patchana, Tye, Taka, Taha M, Ghanchi, Hammad, Wiginton, James, Wacker, Margaret
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
Materias:
Neurosurgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7455395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32874792
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9460
_version_ 1783575615324028928
author Patchana, Tye
Taka, Taha M
Ghanchi, Hammad
Wiginton, James
Wacker, Margaret
author_facet Patchana, Tye
Taka, Taha M
Ghanchi, Hammad
Wiginton, James
Wacker, Margaret
author_sort Patchana, Tye
collection PubMed
description We present a case of a nail gun injury penetrating the right maxillary sinus and frontal lobe with complaints of headache and right eye blindness. After surgical removal and treatment, there were no neurological deficits aside from the persistence of right eye blindness that the patient initially presented with. Our report describes the patient’s clinical course, the multidisciplinary medical and surgical management, along with the clinical workup and important mental health considerations for patients presenting with intracranial nail gun injuries.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-7455395
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2020
publisher Cureus
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-74553952020-08-31 Case Report: Projectile Into Right Frontal Lobe From a Nail Gun Patchana, Tye Taka, Taha M Ghanchi, Hammad Wiginton, James Wacker, Margaret Cureus Neurosurgery We present a case of a nail gun injury penetrating the right maxillary sinus and frontal lobe with complaints of headache and right eye blindness. After surgical removal and treatment, there were no neurological deficits aside from the persistence of right eye blindness that the patient initially presented with. Our report describes the patient’s clinical course, the multidisciplinary medical and surgical management, along with the clinical workup and important mental health considerations for patients presenting with intracranial nail gun injuries. Cureus 2020-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7455395/ /pubmed/32874792 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9460 Text en Copyright © 2020, Patchana et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Neurosurgery
Patchana, Tye
Taka, Taha M
Ghanchi, Hammad
Wiginton, James
Wacker, Margaret
Case Report: Projectile Into Right Frontal Lobe From a Nail Gun
title Case Report: Projectile Into Right Frontal Lobe From a Nail Gun
title_full Case Report: Projectile Into Right Frontal Lobe From a Nail Gun
title_fullStr Case Report: Projectile Into Right Frontal Lobe From a Nail Gun
title_full_unstemmed Case Report: Projectile Into Right Frontal Lobe From a Nail Gun
title_short Case Report: Projectile Into Right Frontal Lobe From a Nail Gun
title_sort case report: projectile into right frontal lobe from a nail gun
topic Neurosurgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7455395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32874792
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9460
work_keys_str_mv AT patchanatye casereportprojectileintorightfrontallobefromanailgun
AT takataham casereportprojectileintorightfrontallobefromanailgun
AT ghanchihammad casereportprojectileintorightfrontallobefromanailgun
AT wigintonjames casereportprojectileintorightfrontallobefromanailgun
AT wackermargaret casereportprojectileintorightfrontallobefromanailgun

Ejemplares similares