Citation

Dabdoub C, Serra S, da Cunha A, Silveira E, Lopez A, Azevedo-Filho H. J. Surg. Case Rep. 2012; 2012(9): 8.

Affiliation

Restauração Hospital, Recife, Brazil.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Oxford University Press)

DOI

10.1093/jscr/2012.9.8

PMID

24960794

Abstract

Head wounds caused by firearms in newborns are an under-studied phenomenon in Latin America due to either the low frequency of such events or inadequate documentation. Nonetheless, a progressive increase is noted, with different frequencies reported for different geographic areas. We present the case of a 28-day-old newborn who suffered traumatic brain injury from a gunshot wound stemming from urban violence. This is one of the youngest patients reported with this type of head trauma in the literature.

Language: en