title: Cranial injury caused by penetrating non-missile foreign body: an autopsy case.
abstract: Presented case was 32-year-old male marble worker, who underwent industrial accident at workplace. On gross physical examination; on forehead region round skin wound in 0.9 cm diameter was detected, radiological examination showed the image of metallic object. in the skull cavity. Brain dissection showed obvious brain injury, haemorrahge explaining the pattern of injury caused by the metallic bodys path, from left frontal lobe to the left cerebellar hemisphere was identified. We presented rare case of penetrating injury of the cranial region caused by non-missile foreign body.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  cranial injury - non-missile foreign body - autopsy.
authors.affiliation: Council of Forensic Medicine of Turkey, Bursa Morque Department, Turkey. drbulenteren@gmail.com
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Eren
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Türkmen
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Toprak Ergönen
authors.forename: U N
authors.initials: UN
authors.lastname: Gündogmus
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational; D000328:Adult; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D020197:Head Injuries, Penetrating / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014950:Wounds, Penetrating / Q000473:pathology*