7-Year-Old Boy Gets 3-Inch Nail Lodged in His Brain in Freak Accident While Playing

A young boy successful India is fortunate to beryllium live aft a freak mishap that caused an astir 3-inch nail to pierce his brain. 

The 7-year-old boy from nan Balrampur territory — who was not identified — was transported to King George's Medical University (KGMU) successful Lucknow, India, connected May 16 to person a 2.27-inch nail that was lodged successful his encephalon surgically removed, according to section outlets India Today, ETV Bharat and The Hindustan Times. 

The kid reportedly sewage nan nail stuck successful his assemblage aft he accidentally fell down while playing and landed connected nan robust nail, which pierced done his cervix up to his brain, according to India Today. He was rushed to a adjacent backstage infirmary earlier being transferred to KGMU for treatment, per nan outlet. 

King George's Medical University did not instantly respond to PEOPLE’s petition for much information.

MRI scans, which KGMU shared pinch section news outlets, show nan nail extending from nan little portion of nan boy’s cervix and jaw up to his head, somewhat extending into his skull.

The scans showed conscionable really adjacent nan nail sewage to piercing nan 7-year-old’s brain, and conscionable really fatal nan wounded could person been if nan nail had pierced a different portion of his caput aliases deed a humor vessel, according to KGMU aesculapian professionals.

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“It was during nan people of investigation that we recovered that nan nail had gone from nan cervix to nan brain, hardly missing a humor vessel. We consulted nan experts successful NeuroSurgery and ENT Departments and past decided to behaviour this analyzable surgery,” said Dr. Sandip Tiwari, per ETV Bharat.

Prof. Samir Misra, a elder module personnel astatine KGMU’s trauma room department, told The Hindustan Times that nan analyzable room “lasted 4 hours,” arsenic immoderate mistakes could person been fatal. During nan process, "the nail had to beryllium cautiously removed while avoiding harm to nan encephalon and delicate nerves betwixt nan rima and nan brain,” Misra said.

Tiwari told ETV Bharat that nan room was successful and that nan boy was later transferred to KGMU’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, wherever he continued his recovery. KGMU aesculapian experts said nan kid remained nether aesculapian supervision and was expected to beryllium discharged erstwhile his information was stabilized, per The Hindustan Times. 

The Medical Superintendent of KGMU noted, per India Today, that owed to nan case’s success, it would beryllium documented arsenic a important publication to aesculapian science. A broad study connected nan room will beryllium published successful an world aesculapian diary for different aesculapian professionals to garner insights from.