caa a22 4500 475787595 CHVBK 20180406123703.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s004149900120 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s004149900120 Gunshot wound to the head with full recovery [Elektronische Daten] [M. A. Rothschild, V. Schneider] A 28-year-old man was shot in the back of the head at close range by a robber who then locked him in a room assuming that he was dead. The man was discovered 2 days later. The entrance wound of the bullet was in the left occipital region and it passed into the periphery of the right temporal lobe, where it lodged. The man was transferred to a rehabilitation centre 3 weeks later in relatively good health with only slight general EEG changes. The mild clinical course in this case is attributable to two major factors: firstly, no important brain structures were injured, and secondly, the kinetic energy of the silver-tip hollow-point bullet was probably rather low. Three years after the incident, the man still has slight sensory disturbances in the fingers of the left hand and left-sided homonymous hemianopia. He is now working again at his old profession (managing director) and the projectile is still lodged in the right temporal lobe. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2000 Key words Ballistics nationallicence Gunshot wound nationallicence Head nationallicence Physical activity nationallicence Incapacitation nationallicence Rothschild M. A. Institute of Legal Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Hittorfstrasse 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany e-mail: rothschild@medizin.fu-berlin.de, Tel.: +49-30-8383498, Fax: +49-30-8383684, DE aut Schneider V. Institute of Legal Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Hittorfstrasse 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany e-mail: rothschild@medizin.fu-berlin.de, Tel.: +49-30-8383498, Fax: +49-30-8383684, DE aut https://doi.org/10.1007/s004149900120 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s004149900120 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rothschild M. A. Institute of Legal Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Hittorfstrasse 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany e-mail: rothschild@medizin.fu-berlin.de, Tel.: +49-30-8383498, Fax: +49-30-8383684, DE aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schneider V. Institute of Legal Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Hittorfstrasse 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany e-mail: rothschild@medizin.fu-berlin.de, Tel.: +49-30-8383498, Fax: +49-30-8383684, DE aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer