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Rev Neurol Neurocir Psiquiat 2022; 50 (1)

Intracranial gunshot wound, a movil proyectile; case report and review of literature

Duarte DP, Serrato PJD, Rojas LO

Language: Spanish
References: 10
Page: 33-36
PDF size: 241.32 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Penetrating gunshot wounds to the skull are one of the most frequent causes of head trauma in developing countries. Some intracraneal locations of projectiles don't allow it's extraction. The migration of the retained projectile can cause rare complications as neuroinfection, neurological focalization and epilepsy. We present the case of a patient with low-velocity firearm projectile injury, with artifact migration through the same cerebral hemisphere, resulting in campimetric compromise, requiring resection of the fragment with improvement of the visual deficit.


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