In this article, a 9-year-old male patient with a compound depressed skull fracture overlying the superior sagittal sinus and an intracranial stone foreign body is presented. A cerebral penetrating injury caused by a stone is rare. The computed tomography images obtained at standard window widths and window density levels may not reveal a retained stone, which has a chemical structure similar to bone and may not show any artifacts in the computed tomography scans.

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