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From Henry Shrapnel (1761-1842) to today's neurosurgery: how antipersonnel weapons have laid the foundation of clinical and surgical management of head injury fractures and penetrating brain injuries.
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2Department of Neurosurgery, Giannina Gaslini Hospital, Genoa, Italy.
Henry Shrapnel invented an antipersonnel weapon capable of defragmenting with the explosion of charge. Modern grenades or improvised explosive devices may be seen as an evolution of Shrapnel's ammunition. Starting by analyzing the ballistics of these weapons, it is possible to understand the historical evolution of the management of skull fractures and penetrating brain injuries (PBIs).
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Department of Medicine, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Medical College and Hospital, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
The reality of war: wounded and fallen Norwegian soldiers in Afghanistan.
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen
May 2012
Ortopedisk avdeling, St. Olavs hospital.
Background: Norway has been contributing military forces to Afghanistan since 2001. The following is an overview of all combat-related injuries and deaths among Norwegian soldiers in the period from 2002 to 2010.
Material And Method: All medical records for Norwegian military personnel in Afghanistan in the period to January 2011 were reviewed and those who fell or were injured during combat were identified.
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Late sequelae of retained foreign bodies after world war II missile injuries.
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Department of Radiology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
A number of people injured during the second world war harbour foreign bodies such as grenade splinters or bullets in some part of the body. Most of these metal fragments remain clinically silent. Some of them, however, may cause delayed complications.
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