@article{ref1,
title="Unique presentation and novel surgical approach to a transcribriform penetrating head injury caused by a nail gun",
journal="Curēus",
year="2022",
author="Hendricks, Benjamin K. and DiDomenico, Joseph D. and Lawton, Michael T. and Little, Andrew S.",
volume="14",
number="6",
pages="e25581-e25581",
abstract="A penetrating head injury caused by a nail gun is an infrequent clinically diverse condition that varies in severity by the neurovascular structures involved. The authors present the case of a patient whose frontal lobe was pierced by a nail that entered via a transnasal transcribriform trajectory without causing vascular injury or intracranial hemorrhage; the man was unaware of the nail's presence and presented with headache five days after the incident. The nail was extracted using a bifrontal craniotomy for direct visualization and for defect repair of the skull base combined with endoscopic endonasal extraction of the nail.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2168-8184",
doi="10.7759/cureus.25581",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25581"
}