Bad Medicine

January 21, 2008

Penetrating Orbital Trauma

Filed under: Medicine — alexa-blue @ 9:32 am

I admit a morbid fascination with this type of injury. The idea that someone could shove a reasonably sized foreign object into their own brain, with massive bleeding but no external trauma, seems just . . . bizarre. Here’s this week’s New England Journal image of the week, a fifteen year old boy assaulted with a pencil:

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