Self-inflicted nail-gun injury with 12 cranial penetrations and associated cerebral trauma: Case report and review of the literature

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 828-834

  Litvack, Zachary N ^a   Hunt, Matthew A ^a   Weinstein, Jason S ^a   West, G Alexander ^a,b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain trauma; Foreign body; Missile injury; Nail gun; Penetrating brain injury; Self inflicted injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FOREIGN BODY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SKULL SURGERY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; FOREIGN BODIES; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURIES, PENETRATING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SKULL FRACTURES; TEMPORAL BONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33646473809     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2006.104.5.828     Document Type: Article

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