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Delayed presentation of penetrating craniocerebral injury caused by a nail

B B Shehu1, I Hassan

  • 1Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Usmanu Danfodio University, Teaching Hospital, Sokoto, Nigeria. bellobalas@yahoo.co.uk

Brain Injury
|March 24, 2007
PubMed

A 38-year-old woman presented after 2 weeks with penetrating craniocerebral injury from a six inch nail. She had aphasia and right hemiplegia. Brain CT scan showed no significant cerebral injury. The nail track was infected. Craniectomy and extraction of the nail along with broad spectrum antibiotics was effective. She had no residual neurologic deficit.

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