Gunshot Wound to the Head: Surgical Management and Cases Report in a Tertiary Care Center in Florencia, Colombia - Open Journal of Modern Neurosurgery

OJMN > Vol.5 No.3, July 2015

Open Journal of Modern Neurosurgery

Volume 5, Issue 3 (July 2015)

ISSN Print: 2163-0569 ISSN Online: 2163-0585

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Gunshot Wound to the Head: Surgical Management and Cases Report in a Tertiary Care Center in Florencia, Colombia ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ojmn.2015.53014 5,331 Downloads 6,133 Views Citations

Author(s)

Alejandro Rojas-Marroquín

Affiliation(s)

Endovascular Neurosurgeon, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México DF, México.

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this research is to report 10 cases treated in a tertiary care center in the Florencia town in Colombia. The time frame to this intervention was from 1^st June 2011 to 30^th June 2012. The idea was to establish the type, age group, Matson’s classification schemes and mortality of the gunshot wound to the head in order to describe the neurological functional prognosis of these patients, made by The Modified Rankin scale (mRS) to 12 months postoperative.

KEYWORDS

Gunshot, Head, Surgical Management, Modified Rankin Scale

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Rojas-Marroquín, A. (2015) Gunshot Wound to the Head: Surgical Management and Cases Report in a Tertiary Care Center in Florencia, Colombia. Open Journal of Modern Neurosurgery, 5, 84-87. doi: 10.4236/ojmn.2015.53014.

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