TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Unusual open craniocerebral injury caused by sickle's tip
JO  - Acta medica Croatica
A1  - Tudor, Mario
A1  - Tudor, Lorainne
A1  - Tudor, Katarina Ivana
A1  - Buca, Ante
A1  - Cambi-Sapunar, Liana
A1  - Carija, Robert
A1  - Dujmović, Davor
SP  - 85
EP  - 88
VL  - 62
IS  - 1
N2  - A nine years old girl suffered an unusual penetrating injury to the head caused by a sickle's tip sticked into the skull bones during a lavender harvest on island of Hvar. GCS score was 15. A sickle's blade and its handle were clearly seen coming out of the frontal bone, hanging free, while its tip was firmly sitting in the skull bones! After a neuroradiological diagnostical work up (skull x rays and CT scans) that confirmed intracranial penetration she was operated as an emergency. An osteoclastic craniotomy was done, a and a sickle thereafter easily extracted. Lacerated and contused brain and the penetrating canal were debrided and dura defect covered with a patch. Broad spectrum antibiotics were administered after antitetanic prophylaxis. Postoperative course was uneventful especially regarding infection. One year after the accident she goes normaly to school.<p /> <p>Language: hr</p>
LA  - hr
SN  - 1330-0164
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -