1st
October
2008
Knife in the head
Tags : neurosurgery, radiologyCategories : Medicine |
X-ray images of knife stuck in boy’s head: teen survives
I always love these sort of Xray pictures. This one is of a boy from London who was stabbed in the head :
We had a similar case back when I was doing ICU and neurosurgery. A mentally disturbed guy put a butter knife through the inside of his eye socket. Xrays showed it had penetrated a similar depth into his skull to these ones. Fortunately it had managed to avoid all the major structures nearby, including his eye and major nerves. But when he was taken to surgery to have it removed, the tip of the knife was only a millimetre away from his internal carotid artery (the main blood supply to the brain). Very lucky indeed.
