The authors present a report on the treatment of 16 @entity1 with @entity1545 caused by a slaughterhouse gun. Nine @entity1 had to be re-operated because of the presence of a foreign body; the primary operations of six @entity1 were made in another surgical department. Two @entity1 were re-operated twice. The reason for the first revision were bone fragments. The reason for the second revision was nasal liquorrhoea and posttraumatic @entity1276 . Three @entity1 (18.75%) of the investigated group died. The immediate cause of @entity204 was @entity4 . Eleven @entity1 (68.75%) were referred for after-treatment to other health facilities, their condition had already improved. Two @entity1 (12.5%) were referred in a poor, unaltered condition ( @entity772 ). The rare incidence of @entity130 leads to a certain embarrassment how to treat @entity1 with this @entity130 . It was found that in gunshot wounds of the head and brain it is necessary to revise the gunshot canal from a craniotoic approach, remove foreign bodies, bone fragments, @entity75 and then close perfectly the aperture in the dura mater, remove the margins of the bone contaminated with the injuring object and suture the skin. The authors draw attention to difficulties associated with localisation of the foreign body in the gunshot canal and possibilities of peroperative application of two-dimensional ultrasonography.

[ XXXX with abattoir guns].

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients'] @entity1545 :: ('MESH:D020214', 'Disease') :: ['brain injuries'] @entity1276 :: ('MESH:D006849', 'Disease') :: ['hydrocephalus'] @entity75 :: ('MESH:D001927', 'Disease') :: ['brain debris'] @entity4 :: ('MESH:D004487', 'Disease') :: ['cerebral oedema'] @entity772 :: ('MESH:D003128', 'Disease') :: ['coma'] @entity204 :: ('MESH:D003643', 'Disease') :: ['death'] @entity130 :: ('MESH:D014947', 'Disease') :: ['type of injury', 'gunshot injuries']
@entity1545 :: (MESH:D020214,Disease) :: ['Brain injuries']
