Transorbital penetrating wound to contralateral hemisphere: case report
| Autor: | Moysés Loiola Ponte de Souza, Amanda de Oliveira López, Suzana Serra, Hildo Rocha Azevedo-Filho |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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| Zdroj: | Brazilian Neurosurgery, Vol 31, Iss 01, Pp 50-54 (2012) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0103-5355 2359-5922 |
| DOI: | 10.1055/s-0038-1625659 |
| Popis: | There are few reports in the literature of transorbital penetration brain damage. We reported a transorbital craniocerebral injury caused by a barbecue skewer in a child in the context of domestic-accident. A 7-year-old male child accidentally fell and a barbecue skewer penetrated his right orbit. The object was pulled out immediately by the boy's father. On admission, he demonstrated disproportioned right hemiparesis and Axial CT images showed no evidence of fracture of orbital wall on the right side and a small hematoma and traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage on the left hemisphere. Surgery was not indicated, antibiotics were administered for 14 days, his neurological impairment recovered completely on seven days. On the 12th post-admission day, a CT was done which showed no hematoma. At the time of discharge, the boy was alert without any physical sequelae or complication. Children are frequently harmed during play and are mainly jeopardized by accidents at home, and it is necessary more governmental investment to objectively lowering penetrating wounds to the head in children and divulgated for general population that foreign body penetrating the intracranial cavity must be removed only during surgery. |
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