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Rapid Communication| Volume 48, ISSUE 5, P410-412, November 1979

A bizarre penetrating head wound with intraoral communication

Report of a case
  • Joseph Niamtu III
    Correspondence
    Reprint requests to: Dr. Joseph Niamtu, III Medical College of Virginia MCV Station Richmond, Va. 23298
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    Affiliations
    Charlotte Memorial Hospital and Medical Center Charlotte, N. C. USA
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  • James Lassiter
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    Charlotte Memorial Hospital and Medical Center Charlotte, N. C. USA
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  • Author Footnotes
    ∗ Former Dental Intern at Charlotte Memorial Hospital and Medical Center; currently an Intern in the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Training Program at the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Va.
    ∗∗ A practicing neurosurgeon in Charlotte, N. C.
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      Abstract

      A case of a transcervical-intraoral penetrating foreign body in a 49-year-old man is presented. This is of interest because of the unusual mechanism of this potentially fatal injury, including the oral cavity, and because of the absence of serious neurologic sequelae.
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