Journal of Trauma and Injury

The Korean Society of Traumatology (대한외상학회)
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Penetrating Orbitocranial Injury of a Pencil in a Pediatric Patient

소아에서 발생한 연필에 의한 관통 뇌손상

  • Hwang, Sun-Chul (Department of Neurosurgery, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital)
  • 황선철 (순천향대학교 부천병원 신경외과)
  • Received : 2012.02.12
  • Accepted : 2012.03.05
  • Published : 2012.06.30
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Abstract

Pencils are common instruments for children to use and play with. This report describes an unusual penetrating orbitocranial injury in a 5-year-old girl who was struck in her facewith a pencil. She was holding it at a desk, and her friend pushed her back. The pencil penetrated the left lower eyelid and went deep into the right frontal lobe through the base of the skull. It was removed at the emergency room, after which brain CT was performed to detect the development of an intracranial hematoma. No complications occurred after conservative management with antibiotics and an antiepileptic drug. Pencils can be hazardous to children, and a penetrating head injury with a pencil may be managed without cranial surgery.

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