@article{ref1,
title="Treatment of a self-inflicted intracranial nail gun injury",
journal="BMJ case reports",
year="2021",
author="Kopp, Miroslav and Lin, Ning and Yoshida, Miya Catherine and Zhu, Roger Chen",
volume="14",
number="1",
pages="e2020-237122",
abstract="A 30-year-old man walked into the emergency department after a suicide attempt by firing a nail from a pneumatic nail gun directed at his left temple. He was  haemodynamically stable and neurologically intact, able to recall all events and  moving all extremities with a Glascow Coma Scale of 15. CT of the brain showed a  6.3 cm nail in the right frontal region without major intracerebral vessel  disruption. He was taken to the operating room for left temporal wound washout,  debridement of gross contamination and closure with titanium cranial fixation plate. The foreign body was not accessible on initial surgical intervention and was left in  place to define anatomy and plan for subsequent removal. Thin slice CT images were  used to create 3D reconstructions to facilitate stereotactic navigation and foreign  body removal via right craniotomy the following day. The patient tolerated the  procedures well and recovered with full neurological function.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1757-790X",
doi="10.1136/bcr-2020-237122",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2020-237122"
}