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Case Reports
. 1983 Jun;19(6):541-3.
doi: 10.1016/0090-3019(83)90379-8.

Unusual penetrating craniocerebral injury

A Gutierrez, L Gil, J Sahuquillo, E Rubio
Case Reports

Unusual penetrating craniocerebral injury

A Gutierrez et al. Surg Neurol. 1983 Jun.

Abstract

We report a 29-year-old patient who was operated on for a penetrating craniocerebral injury caused by an underwater fishing harpoon. It had penetrated through the roof of the left orbit, upward toward the calvaria. The patient was immediately operated upon and the foreign body was easily removed through a small left parietal craniectomy. In spite of the spectacular appearance of the injury on admission to the hospital, neurological impairment before and after the operation was minimal.

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