Attempting homicide by inserting sewing needle into the brain

Amirjamshidi, Abbass; Ghasvini, Arman Rakan; Alimohammadi, Maysam; Abbassioun, Kazem

doi:10.1016/j.surneu.2009.02.029

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“…Garrusi et al, [12] reported that the 65% of physicians had observed cases of child abuse in their practice, but that only 4.5% of the cases were reported to authorities [12]. Amirjamshidi et al, [13] reported 6 cases of homicide attempts towards children with sewing needle, two of them concerning children below 10 years of age [13].…”

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Extreme Physical Punishment in the Home and its Associations with Aggression and Victimization at School: A Study among Young Adolescents in Iran

Jaghoory¹

2013

Pediat Therapeut

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Extreme Physical Punishment in the Home and its Associations with Aggression and Victimization at School: A Study among Young Adolescents in Iran

Jaghoory¹

2013

Pediat Therapeut

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“…Antiepileptic drugs should be reserved only for patients with seizures [9]. Amirjamshidi et al [7] described that there was no absolute indication for removing intracranial sewing needles detected in the later decades of life. Vedat Ali [20] points out that patient with intracranial needles may present late in life with epilepsy or status epilepticus.…”

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“…There have been few case reports indicating infanticide using sewing needles (Table 1) in the literature. Meixner [6] was the first to publish such a case in the German literature in 1914, and the largest review till date has been performed by Abbas Amirjamshidi [7] adding their own six new cases and reviewing 40 previously reported cases.…”

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“…The most common symptoms are headache and epilepsy [7]. Most of them were identified in Turkey and Iran, with only a few cases in the Far East, North and Eastern Europe, and the United States [9].…”

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“…There is very few patients with symptomatic intracranial needles previously reported. Amirjamshidi [7] reported six cases, four of which underwent surgical operation. One patient developed 'akinetic mutism' after cessation of anesthesia.…”

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Intracranial foreign body through the sagittal sinus: case report and review of literature

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Objective: To investigate therapeutic effect of surgery that removes an intracranial foreign body through the intracranial sagittal sinus with help of intraoperative navigation and intraoperative fluorescein angiography. Methods: We performed operation on a patient with intracranial foreign body. Under guidance of intraoperative navigation, combined with intraoperative fluorescein angiography to avoid sagittal sinus damage, we opened the dura mater and removed the foreign body with minimally invasive technique. Results: Surgical positioning was very accurate with neuronavigation, intraoperative fluorescein angiography displayed the venous drainage along the sagittal sinus in order to prevent its rupture; the intracranial foreign body was removed successfully without any post-operative complications. Conclusion: Intraoperative navigation and intraoperative fluorescein angiography technologies to guide the removal of the foreign metal body inserted through the sagittal sinus have the following advantages: Accurate positioning, minimally invasive, reliable curative effect, quick postoperative recovery and overall fewer complications.

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A late onset adult seizure due to intracerebral needle: case-based update

Bozkurt

Arac

2019

Childs Nerv Syst

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Background and aim Late-onset seizure due to intracerebral needle is a rare entity. Most of them were clinically asymptomatic and rarely presented with seizure. Sewing needles are used in homicidal attempt in infancy or early childhood before the closure of the fontanels. Because of sociologic, politic, and scientific deficiencies subject remained untouched. We tried shedding some light on this ambiguous phenomenon. Material and methods We report a 54-year-old man who was admitted to our neurosurgery outpatient department with epilepsy due to a sewing needle located in the left frontal lobe of the brain and made extensive literature review. Result Patient's physical and neurological examinations were completely normal. All biochemical and hematological tests were normal. Cranial tomography demonstrated a linear density at the left frontal lobe compatible with a sewing needle. Patient was followed-up with antiepileptic treatment with no seizure. Sixty cases from up-to-date literature and past cases were reviewed. Patients' ages differ from 4 days to 70 years. Our review showed four cases treated with antibiotics, 19 patients went to surgery, and others just followed-up with antiepileptic and other drugs. Conclusion Literature needs an autopsy series for a more intimate estimation. Due to psychosocial and legitimacy problems, matter should be handled cautiously and law enforcement agencies must be informed. Follow-up with medication is the first line of treatment with asymptomatic patients. Treatment is dictated by clinic onset, physical examination, and patient consent.

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Attempting homicide by inserting sewing needle into the brain

Cited by 31 publications

References 17 publications

Extreme Physical Punishment in the Home and its Associations with Aggression and Victimization at School: A Study among Young Adolescents in Iran

Extreme Physical Punishment in the Home and its Associations with Aggression and Victimization at School: A Study among Young Adolescents in Iran

Intracranial foreign body through the sagittal sinus: case report and review of literature

A late onset adult seizure due to intracerebral needle: case-based update

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