Citation

Fattahi A, Jahanbakhshi A, Shahivand A, Dastmalchi A. Case Rep. Med. 2018; 2018: 1630864.

Affiliation

Neurosurgery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Hindawi Publishing)

DOI

10.1155/2018/1630864

PMID

29849655

PMCID

PMC5933016

Abstract

Spinal penetrating trauma has a complex neurosurgical management. This study presents a 55-year-old male admitted in our center with a 1 × 1 centimeter laceration on the sacral area skin due to a wooden penetrating object. The computed tomography (CT) of the spine revealed a hypodense penetrating object that was introduced from the posterior aspect of the sacrum into dural space and then stopped in the S1 vertebral body. We performed a laminectomy of intact superior portion of the S1 lamina and released the wood from the surrounding bone, and finally, we pulled it out.

Language: en