According to a recent news report from the Calgary Herald, a man was operating his string trimmer (commonly called a "weed eater" or weed whacker") when it picked up a stray nail and threw it into his eye.
The 27-year-old landscaper could have suffered a fate much worse when the three-inch nail penetrated his eye and traveled into his brain. A neurosurgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) who treated victim said when you looked at him, all you could see was the head of the nail sticking out of his right eye.
This medical case history made into the New England Medical Journal as doctors used a new type of CT scanner to get detailed imaging of his eye and brain, as they were unable to determine the length or path of the nail from an external examination. One radiologist who helped perform the scan said the nail was very deep and had almost punctured victim's other eye.
from Usa Insurance News http://ift.tt/1MDct39
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