Citation

Bock H, Neu M, Betz P, Seidl S. Int. J. Legal Med. 2002; 116(5): 279-281.

Affiliation

Department of Legal Medicine, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Universitätsstrasse 22, 91054 Erlangen, Germany. Horst.Bock@recht.med.uni-erlangen.de

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s00414-001-0281-8

PMID

12376837

Abstract

A man was found unconscious near a ladder in a house. After resuscitation he was brought to a hospital and X-rays of the skull showed that two 12-cm long nails had completely penetrated the cranial cavity. The nails were operatively removed and after treatment for 5 weeks, the patient was transferred to a rehabilitation centre with a decreasing hemiparesis on the left side and general deterioration and then, after an attempted suicide to a psychiatric hospital. The perforating cranio-cerebral injury from a pneumatic nail gun known to reach only low muzzle velocities is a very unusual finding.

Language: en