National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Colombia (2013) Grupo Centro de Referencia Nacional sobre Violencia/Sistema de Información Red de Desaparecidos y Cadáveres/Sistema de Información Nacional de Estadísticas Indirectas. Forensis.

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

  AUTHORS: Alejandro Rojas-Marroquín

  KEYWORDS: Gunshot, Head, Surgical Management, Modified Rankin Scale

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Modern Neurosurgery, Vol.5 No.3, July 3, 2015

  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 1st June 2011 to 30th 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.