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A man was found unconscious near a ladder in a house. After resuscitation he was brought to a hospital and X-rays of the skull showed that two 12 -cm long nails had completely penetrated the cranial cavity. The nails were operatively removed and after treatment for 5 weeks, the patient was transferred to a rehabilitation centre with a decreasing hemiparesis on the left side and general deterioration and then, after an attempted suicide to a psychiatric hospital. The perforating cranio-cerebral injury from a pneumatic nail gun known to reach only low muzzle velocities is a very unusual finding.
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Bock, .H., Neu, .M., Betz, .P. et al. Unusual craniocerebral injury caused by a pneumatic nail gun. Int J Legal Med 116, 279–281 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-001-0281-8
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-001-0281-8