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- Title
Foreign Body Removal: A Shocking Story.
- Authors
Cheek, Susannah; Shifflette, Vanessa; Dunn, Ernest
- Abstract
A case study is presented in which a 24-year-old man was injured by TASERs© stun darts during an altercation with police. The article notes the barbed darts were in the patient's forehead and right calf and they had to be removed surgically. It also notes the removal of the forehead dart left a hole in the calvarium.
- Subjects
STUN guns; CALVARIA; SKULL injuries; LAW enforcement equipment
- Publication
American Surgeon, 2013, Vol 79, Issue 1, pE35
- ISSN
0003-1348
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1177/000313481307900119