title: Transorbital stab penetrating brain injury. Report of a case.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Penetrating injury of the skull and brain is relatively uncommon, representing about 0.4% of head injuries. In this paper the Authors describe a case of patient victim of transorbital stab with brain injury with good recovery and review the literature about cranial stab wound.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 23-year-old man was involved in an altercation which resulted in the patient sustaining wounds to the head, with penetrating in left transorbital, affecting the eye. At arrival to the first trauma center the patient was conscent and complete responsive with 15 points in Glasgow Coma Scale, and motor deficit grade III. CT scan demonstrated left periventricular brain hematoma and supraorbital fracture. A four-vessel cerebral angiogram demonstrated no abnormality. In this evolution patient presented good neurologic outcome.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In patients conscents with no surgical lesion like our patient, the hospital discharge must occur after the angiogram have excluded intracranial vascular lesion.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neurosurgery, Hospital das Clinicas University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Brazil. wellingsonpaiva@yahoo.com.br
authors.forename: Wellingson Silva
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Paiva
authors.forename: Felippe
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Saad
authors.forename: Eduardo Santamaria
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Carvalhal
authors.forename: Robson Luis Oliveira
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: De Amorim
authors.forename: Eberval Gadelha
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Figuereido
authors.forename: Manoel Jacobsen
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Teeixera
mesh_terms: D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D020197:Head Injuries, Penetrating / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009915:Orbit / Q000293:injuries*; D014951:Wounds, Stab / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D055815:Young Adult