Twisted steel-induced penetrating head injury
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Twisted steel-induced penetrating head injury.
Penetrating head injury causes complex injuries and high mortality. A 47-year-old man presented after a fall from a 4-meter-high construction scaffold with a twisted steel bar in his head (figure, A and B). The only focal neurologic deficit was a fixed and dilated left pupil. CT imaging revealed interruption of left optic canal (figure, C) without involvement of left internal carotid artery (fi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0028-3878,1526-632X
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000001544