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Patient with a knife inside the left occipital area of the skull
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Eighteen years old boy presented to the emergency department after an assault by penetrating knife in his left side of skull (Figure 1).
Skull X-ray shows the knife penetrating the skull
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Skull X-ray and CT scan showed 20cm knife planted 5cm deep into the left occipital lobe (Figure 2).
Scanner of control for the patient in figure one showing nearly complete consolidation
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CT scan of control was excellent (Figure 3).
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Patient with a metallic rode inside the right side of the head
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Fourteen years old boy presented to emergency department with a penetrating metallic rod inside the right occipital side of the head (Figure 4).
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Patient with discharge of cerebral tissue from the forehead of ballistic injury
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The patient presented in a state of coma with glasgow coma scale at 4/15, decerebration, discharge of brain tissue from a wound in the forehead (Figure 5).
Scanner of the same patient in figure five showing the present of multiple metallic fragments inside the brain
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Scanner confirmed penetration of large numbers of metallic fragment inside the frontal lobe (Figure 6).
Image of the eighteen fragments which we can remove from the patient in figure five
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Eighteen fragments from extra cerebral and intra cerebral regions were removed (Figure 7).