Operative Neurosurgery

A wound is a type of injury in which skin is torn, cut, or punctured (an open wound), or where blunt force trauma causes a contusion (a closed wound). In pathology, it specifically refers to a sharp injury which damages the dermis of the skin.

see Cranial wound

see Stab wound

see Wound reconstruction

see Surgical wound

see Wound closure

see Wound infection

Wounds of the ventricle in the series of Haynes et al were produced by missiles or foreign bodies passing through or into the ventricular system. Actual visualization of the opening into the ventricle at surgery was the basis for diagnosis. There was no definite clinical syndrome characteristic of transventricular wounds even though most of the patients had high temperatures and stiff necks. The physical findings depended upon the area of the brain involved. A diagnosis of ventricular penetration was suspected when x-ray films showed evidence of the missile canal, outlined by bone fragments, passing through the position normally occupied by the ventricles. The lateral ventricles were most frequently involved, accounting for all cases except 3 in which the 3rd ventricle was penetrated. There were no cases of penetration of the 4th ventricle ¹⁾.

HAYNES WG. Transventricular wounds of the brain. J Neurosurg. 1945 Nov;2:463-8. PubMed PMID: 21007721.