Penetrating ballistic-like frontal brain injury caused by a metallic rod

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 151, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 689-691

  Pascual, J M ^a   Navas, M ^a   Carrasco, R ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE LA PRINCESA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Head injury; Orbitocranial injury; Penetrating brain injury; Projectile injury

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; METAL;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; KITCHEN; PARESIS; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; SEIZURE; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; BLEPHAROPTOSIS; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; CRANIOTOMY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; FRONTAL LOBE; HEAD INJURIES, PENETRATING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METALS; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; ORBITAL FRACTURES; PARESIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67650453829     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-009-0222-8     Document Type: Article

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