Knife blade penetrating stab wound to the brain - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 172-175

  Iwakura, Masaki ^a,c,d   Kawaguchi, Tetsuro ^a   Hosoda, Kohkichi ^a   Shibata, Yuji ^a   Komatsu, Hideki ^a   Yanagisawa, Akira ^a   Kohmura, Eiji ^b  

^a Hyogo Brain and Heart Center at Himeji   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Shinsuma Hospital   (Japan)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain; Operation; Penetrating stab wound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CRANIOTOMY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFECTION; KNIFE CUT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; STAB WOUND; SUICIDE;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; CEREBRAL VEINS; CRANIOTOMY; DURA MATER; HEAD INJURIES, PENETRATING; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PARIETAL BONE; PARIETAL LOBE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SKULL; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 17044420955     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.45.172     Document Type: Article

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