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A penetrating head injury, or open head injury, is a head injury in which the dura mater, the outer layer of the meninges, is breached. [1] Penetrating injury can be caused by high-velocity projectiles or objects of lower velocity such as knives, or bone fragments from a skull fracture that are driven into the brain.
Head injuries include both injuries to the brain and those to other parts of the head, such as the scalp and skull. Head injuries can be closed or open. Head injuries can be closed or open. A closed (non-missile) head injury is where the dura mater remains intact.
Penetrating trauma is an open wound injury that occurs when an object pierces the skin and enters a tissue of the body, creating a deep but relatively narrow entry wound.In contrast, a blunt or non-penetrating trauma may have some deep damage, but the overlying skin is not necessarily broken and the wound is still closed to the outside environment.
871 Open wound of eyeball; 872 Open wound of ear; 873 Other open wound of head; 874 Open wound of neck; 875 Open wound of chest (wall) 876 Open wound of back; 877 Open wound of buttock; 878 Open wound of genital organs (external), including traumatic amputation; 879 Open wound of other and unspecified sites, except limbs
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Focal and diffuse brain injury are ways to classify brain injury: focal injury occurs in a specific location, while diffuse injury occurs over a more widespread area.It is common for both focal and diffuse damage to occur as a result of the same event; many traumatic brain injuries have aspects of both focal and diffuse injury. [1]
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