Brain injuries caused by spherical bolts

Roth, Jonathan V.; Mayo, A; Elran, Hanoch; Razon, N.; Kluger, Yoram

doi:10.3171/jns.2005.102.5.0864

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“…The patients had cerebrospinal luid leakage (12.8%) and 40.0% of them were poor outcome and 60.0 % had good outcome &15.4% of the patients had wound infection and 33.3% of them were poor outcome and 66.7% had a good outcome, these were not affected factors, p-value =(1.00), (0.6) respectively as shown in Tables 1 and 2 . There is an obvious male predominance in penetrating injuries to the head with 35 males and 4 females, and it is not a signi icant factor p-value =0.609 even in other studies (Ambrosi et al, 2012). In comparison to other studies done in which they have a nearly equal proportion between male and female (Roth et al, 2005) and this difference because of most our patients were male workers who are prevalent in our community.…”

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Factors affecting the outcome in surgically treated civilian penetrating head injury: Case series

Dolachee¹,

Lafta²,

Mohammed³

et al. 2019

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Penetrating brain injury (PBI) is any injury that causes penetration of the scalp, skull, meninges, and brain. It is a traumatic brain injury caused by either low-velocity sharp objects (e.g. a knife), high-velocity projectiles (shell fragment or bullets) or blast injury is the consequence of the detonation of complex explosives with or without PBI and closed head injury. To evaluate the factors (pre-operative and operative) that affect the surgical outcome of civilian PBI. This study was done from February 2017 to October 2018 prospectively & retrospectively. The study involved only the civilian patients that got a penetrating head injury and surgically treated in Neurosurgical Teaching Hospital/Baghdad/Iraq. The data include thirty-nine (39) operated patients with PBI. Data information includes the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), radiological investigations (computerized tomov graphy (CT-scan) and plain X-ray) the outcome determined by Glasgow Outcome Score (GOS). The patients were followed up during the time of hospitalization. The surgical outcome of the penetrating head injury in this study was assessed by GOS and was as follow, good recovery 10 patients (25.6%), moderately disabled 11 patients (28.2%), severely disabled 5 patients (12.8%), vegetative 6 patients (15.4%), Dead 7 patients (18.0%). Good outcome 21 patients 53.8% while poor outcome 18 patients 46.2%. GCS is significant factor (p-value = 0.002), time not affecting, CT-finding is significant factor (p-value = 0.000), blood pressure >= 90 mm Hg is a good predictor factor (p-value =0.001), speech difficulty is poor predictor factor (p-value = 0.004), outcome of inlet alone better than inlet and outlet. There are many factors affecting the surgical outcome in civilian penetrating head injury, and the significant factor is pre-operative GCS, CT-scan which is the best radiological investigation for pre-operative and post-operative assessment and show the details of the injury, blood pressure > = 90 mm Hg which is a good prognostic factor.

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“…The age prevalence was nearly same of 3rd decade (30.8%) and 4th decade (33.3%) which in comparison with other studies the commonest age group is the 2nd decade of life (Roth et al, 2005) or 2nd and 3rd (Roberto et al 2003). And this difference because of our country conditions and most of the male workers are in 3rd and 4th decade of life.…”

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confidence: 45%