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- Title
Post-Traumatic Cerebral Infarction Following Low-Energy Penetrating Craniocerebral Injury Caused by a Nail.
- Authors
Po-Chuan Chen; Shih-Hung Tsai; Yu-Long Chen; Wen-I Liao
- Abstract
Post-traumatic cerebral infarction (PTCI) is a secondary insult which causes global cerebral hypoxia or hypoperfusion after traumatic brain injury, and carries a remarkable high mortality rate. PTCI is usually caused by blunt brain injury with gross hematoma and/or brain herniation. Herein, we present the case of a 91-year-old male who had sustained PTCI following a low-energy penetrating craniocerebral injury due to a nail without evidence of hematoma. The patient survived after a decompressive craniectomy, but permanent neurological damage occurred. This is the first case of profound PTCI following a low-energy penetrating craniocerebral nail injury and reminds clinicians of possibility this rare dreadful complication for care of head-injured patients.
- Subjects
CEREBRAL infarction; CEREBROVASCULAR disease; INFARCTION; HYPOXEMIA; BLOOD circulation disorders
- Publication
Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society, 2014, Vol 55, Issue 5, p293
- ISSN
2005-3711
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3340/jkns.2014.55.5.293