TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Penetrating head injury to intact skull with a ball point pen: a rare case
JO  - Neurology India
A1  - Chandran, Vipin
A1  - Bansal, Sumit
A1  - Sahu, Rabi Narayan
SP  - 466
EP  - 466
VL  - 70
IS  - 1
N2  - Penetrating head injury with a ballpoint pen through a natural bony opening, that is, nasal orifice, orbit, or oral cavity, has been reported previously.[1],[2],[3],[4] However, penetrating head injury with a ballpoint pen through an intact skull has never been reported in the literature.     A 6-year-old male child with a history of fall at home followed by an accidental penetrating injury to the left temporal region with a ballpoint pen was referred to our hospital following unsuccessful exploration at a local hospital. On examination, he was conscious oriented with stable vitals and no neurological deficits. There was a horizontal incised wound (3 cm × 1 cm × 1 cm) present 2 cm above the left ear lobule...     1.	  Davis GA, Holmes AD, Klug GL. Delayed presentation of transorbital intracranial pen. J Clin Neurosci 2000;7:545-8.      2.	  Koyanagi M, Sakai N, Adachi H, Ueno Y, Kunieda T, Imamura H, et al. Penetrating brain injury caused by retained plastic tip of ballpoint pen. Pediatr Neurosurg 2011;47:462-3.      3.	  Rahimizadeh A, Williamson WL, Hadadian K. Orbitocranial injury by a ball-point pen in a child: A case report. J Spine Neurosurg 2018;7:2.      4.	  Rao LP, Peter S, Sreekumar KP, Iyer S. A 'pen' in the neck: An unusual foreign body and an unusual path of entry. Indian J Dent Res 2014;25:111-4.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0028-3886
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0028-3886.338638
ID  - ref1
ER  -