@article{ref1,
title="Artistic assault: an unusual penetrating head injury reported as a trivial facial trauma",
journal="Acta neurochirurgica",
year="2005",
author="Mandat, T. S. and Honey, C. R. and Peters, D. A. and Sharma, B. R.",
volume="147",
number="3",
pages="331-3; discussion 332",
abstract="The authors report a case of penetrating head injury that presented with a deceptively mild complaint. To our knowledge, it is the first report of a paint brush penetrating the brain. The patient reported being punched in the left eye and presented with a minor headache, swelling around the left orbit, a small cut on the cheek and slightly reduced left eye abduction. After radiological evaluation, a penetrating head injury was diagnosed. Under general anesthesia, through a lateral eyelid incision a 10.5 cm long paint brush, which had penetrated from the left orbit to the right thalamus, was removed. No post-operative infection was seen at six months follow-up. This brief report serves to highlight that penetrating brain injury can occur without neurological deficit and that a minimally invasive surgical approach was successful in avoiding any complications.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0001-6268",
doi="10.1007/s00701-004-0429-7",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00701-004-0429-7"
}