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Case Reports in Surgery
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 716791, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/716791
Case Report

Occult Orbitocranial Penetrating Pencil Injury in a Child

Faisal Al-Otaibi1 and Saleh Baeesa2

1Division of Neurological Surgery, Neurosciences Department, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh 11211, Saudi Arabia
2Division of Neurological Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 3354, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia

Received 14 August 2012; Accepted 13 November 2012

Academic Editors: J. M. Bernal, H. Hirano, and T. Kaido

Copyright © 2012 Faisal Al-Otaibi and Saleh Baeesa. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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