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Penetration injury of the pyramis caused by a kick from a racehorse

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A 56-year-old man presented with an unusual cranial penetration injury due to a horse's hoof. The CT number of the hoof was 269, and thus clearly not that of a wooden fragment or bone. An emergency operation was performed to remove the foreign body. The operation went well, and no infection developed. Eight months later he could walk unaided and had only mild disorientation.

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  1. Division of Neurosurgery, Institute of Brain Diseases, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

    Yoshikazu Ogawa, Michiyasu Suzuki & Takashi Yoshimoto

  2. Department of Neursosurgery, Obihiro Daiichi Hospital, Hokkaido, Japan

    Mitsunobu Kanno & Yukihilo Shimizu

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Ogawa, Y., Kanno, M., Shimizu, Y. et al. Penetration injury of the pyramis caused by a kick from a racehorse. Neurosurg. Rev. 17, 217–219 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00418437

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