A Rare Cause of Pleural Effusion; Cerebrospinal Fluid Leakage

Dear Sir, Although firearm injuries are rare among penetrating traumas in children, they are very important in terms of their complications. Many thoracic complications may arise during spinal trauma caused by gunshot wounds.[1] Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak is one of the serious complications of gunshot wounds.[1] Here, we present a 10‐year‐old girl admitted to our Pediatric Intensive Care Unit with spinal trauma after being shot on the shoulder.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences

• Publication date

  2017-01-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.4103/jpn.JPN_176_16PMID 28553406PMCID 5437779
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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