TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2002//
TI  - Unusual craniocerebral injury caused by a pneumatic nail gun
JO  - International journal of legal medicine
A1  - Bock, H.
A1  - Neu, M.
A1  - Betz, P.
A1  - Seidl, S.
SP  - 279
EP  - 281
VL  - 116
IS  - 5
N2  - A man was found unconscious near a ladder in a house. After resuscitation he was brought to a hospital and X-rays of the skull showed that two 12-cm long nails had completely penetrated the cranial cavity. The nails were operatively removed and after treatment for 5 weeks, the patient was transferred to a rehabilitation centre with a decreasing hemiparesis on the left side and general deterioration and then, after an attempted suicide to a psychiatric hospital. The perforating cranio-cerebral injury from a pneumatic nail gun known to reach only low muzzle velocities is a very unusual finding.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0937-9827
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00414-001-0281-8
ID  - ref1
ER  -