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Unrecognized penetrating intracranial foreign body
The American Journal of Emergency Medicine
|September 1, 1986
Summary
Low-velocity penetrating head injuries can appear minor but require suspicion. Always consider penetrating trauma with any low-velocity object impact to the head.
Area of Science:
- Neurosurgery
- Trauma Surgery
Background:
- Low-velocity penetrating craniocerebral trauma is often underestimated.
- Such injuries may present with deceptively minor external signs.