title: Intracranial retained stone after depressed skull fracture: problems in the initial diagnosis.
abstract: In this article, a 9-year-old male patient with a compound depressed skull fracture overlying the superior sagittal sinus and an intracranial stone foreign body is presented. A cerebral penetrating injury caused by a stone is rare. The computed tomography images obtained at standard window widths and window density levels may not reveal a retained stone, which has a chemical structure similar to bone and may not show any artifacts in the computed tomography scans.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Göztepe Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. naci.balak@attglobal.net
authors.forename: Naci
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Balak
authors.forename: Belma
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Aslan
authors.forename: Alpay
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Serefhan
authors.forename: Ilhan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Elmaci
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000473:pathology*; D049429:Forensic Pathology; D020197:Head Injuries, Penetrating / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008297:Male; D020204:Skull Fracture, Depressed / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed