CRANIO-CEREBRAL WOUNDS DUE TO PROJECTILES

Cranio-cerebral gunshot wounds

Cranio-cerebral gunshots wounds (CCGW) are the most devastating injuries to the central nervous system, especially made by high velocity bullets, the most devastating, severe and usually fatal type of missile injury to the head. Objective: To investigate and compare, using a retrospective study on five cases the clinical outcomes of CCGW. Predictors of poor outcome were: older age, delayed mode...

Update in Cranio-cerebral Lymphomatous Imaging Diagnosis.

New MR techniques: diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) and MR spectroscopy (MRS) are increasingly used in clinical radiologic practice and may help to differentiate CNS lymphomas from other lesions of the brain (1,2). Diffusion-weighted MRI is a powerful tool in characterization of brain neoplasms. DWI measures the diffusion of water molecules in biologic tissues; diffusion within the tumor is con...

[Echoencephalographic findings in cranio-cerebral injuries].

Cranio-Cerebral Injuries: Their Diagnosis and Treatment

AND TREATMENT.K Kita intm ?IV|.D'? ?By Donald Munro, A.B., 1 nKH 1 1 BJf WUI.aiU IV.UI..V, J/%n F.A.C.S. 1938. Oxford University Press, Lond Ppxxviii plus 412. With 62 illustration8' Price, 21s. Obtainable from Oxford Universe Press, Bombay and Calcutta The aphorism of Hippocrates that 'no head injur^t!g so trivial as to be neglected or so serious as to despaired of ' still holds good. With the...

Cerebral Embolism After Gunshot Wounds

A 22-year-old man presented with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the left neck. The rifle used was a .22 caliber filled with multiple small bird-shot pellets . Medical history was noncontributory. Physical examination showed an 8-mm diameter entrance wound in the left posterior oral cavity without active bleeding. Powder burns were present. No exit wound was identified. Except for mild left n...