Penetrating head injury by a stone: Case report and review of the literature

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 112, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 813-816

  Alafaci, Concetta ^a   Caruso, Gerardo ^a   Caffo, Mariella ^a   Adorno, Alessandro A ^a   Cafarella, Daniele ^a   Salpietro, Francesco M ^a   Tomasello, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Foreign body; Head trauma; Intracranial stone; Low velocity trauma

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; ETIRACETAM; TETANUS TOXOID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOPLASTY; EPILEPSY; FOREIGN BODY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PENETRATING TRAUMA; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; TETANUS;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AMNESIA; FOREIGN BODIES; HEAD INJURIES, PENETRATING; HUMANS; MALE; MOTORCYCLES; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION; SKULL FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957789254     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2010.06.008     Document Type: Article

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