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Radiolucent wooden foreign body masquerading as a depressed skull fracture

The following case describes a head injury in an older male patient in which a large wooden foreign body, forming a subcutaneous tract in the scalp, was mistaken for a depressed skull fracture on initial clinical assessment. This foreign body was not visualised on CT brain imaging until specialised...

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Main Authors: Tasneem, Komal, Concannon, Elizabeth Sarah, Abulkhir, Adel, Ryan, Ronan S, Barry, Kevin
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3246163/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22669993
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr.10.2011.4964
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