title: Accidental penetrating brain injury through anterior fontanelle: a rare phenomenon.
abstract: Penetrating injuries of the anterior fontanelle are exceedingly uncommon and are most often associated with inflictedinjury. This report of a 7-month-old male infant, whose father was working with a knife which accidentally slipped from his hand and penetrated the infants anterior fontanelle and frontal lobe, demonstrates that accidental injuries may also occur rarely.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, J.N. Medical College, AMU, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. shahbazfaridi@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Shahbaz H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Faridi
authors.forename: V K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Srivastava
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Hoda
authors.forename: Mohd
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Khalid
mesh_terms: D000061:Accidents, Home; D055762:Cranial Fontanelles / Q000293:injuries* / Q000473:pathology; D049429:Forensic Pathology; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D020197:Head Injuries, Penetrating / Q000473:pathology*; D006406:Hematoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed