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Highlights • Penetrating Brain Injury (PBI) incidence rate is lower than other type of head traumas, but it's the most hazardous one.• Non enchanced head CT (NECT) is beneficially helpful… Click to show full abstract
Highlights • Penetrating Brain Injury (PBI) incidence rate is lower than other type of head traumas, but it's the most hazardous one.• Non enchanced head CT (NECT) is beneficially helpful for the surgeons to construct surgical plan and to estimate the prognosis related to patient's condition.• Brain abscess is commonly found as PBI complication, it can appear 2–4 weeks, in some cases may delayed to 2–3 months after the time of injury.• The broad-spectrum prophylactic antibiotics is important to control the infection, though abscess formation may be inevitable.
Journal Title: International Journal of Surgery Case Reports
Year Published: 2020
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