A CASE REPORT: CARCINOMA AFTER TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY CAUSED BY INCENDIARY WEAPONS

Carcinoma in patients with traumatic brain injury having retained metal foreign bodies does not commonly exist. Complications of local cancer by traumatic brain injury, having retained metal foreign bodies can occasionally occur. Changes mainly appear at the wound due to chronic inflammation and cell hyperplasia, which leads to cancer. The clinical case the authors introduce is a patient participating in the Resistance War for National Salvation who was shot by artillery pieces in the right temporal. The patient was admitted to the hospital and had experienced surgery to remove a tumor from the right temporal. The histopathology of the tumor was carcinoma. After surgery, the patient was awake, the incision recovered well, and the patient could live normally.