Citation

Ozkan U, Ozateş M, Kemaloglu S, Güzel A. Clin. Neurol. Neurosurg. 2006; 108(6): 573-575.

Affiliation

Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey. drumitozkan@yahoo.com

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.clineuro.2005.03.002

PMID

16905434

Abstract

We report the case of a 20-year-old man with a gunshot injury as an example of spontaneous migration of a metallic foreign body within the brain. Computed tomography (CT) showed the bullet in the left temporoparietal region. At 10 days follow-up, CT revealed that the bullet had migrated posteriorly, due to the effect of gravity, lodging in the occipital lobe. Although there are a few literature reports of spontaneous migration of a bullet within the brain, this case was unique as the patient was fully conscious without any neurological deficit.

Language: en