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CT scout view showing a retained garden fork in the frontal area.
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A computerized tomographic (CT) scan of the brain showed a retained garden fork in the frontal area (Fig. 1).
Axial non-contrast CT brain scan showing a garden fork prong in the left frontal parenchyma with associated artefact (A) and loose bone fragment in left frontal soft tissue (B). Axial CT bone window showing left frontal bone fracture caused by the fork (C).
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The garden fork prong had penetrated the left frontal cortex; however, it caused a lot of artefact making visualization of parenchymal tissue damage difficult to appreciate (Fig. 2).