The headband that held in the brain: illustrative case
Jonathan J Light, Gregory Topp, Michael Barats, Frank Genovese, Jared F Sweeney · 2026
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Description
Light and four colleagues report a case of a cloth headband that slowly cut into a woman's skull in twenty twenty-six. The forty-five year old woman was found passed out with a bleeding scalp wound in a ring shape. A head scan showed the skull bone worn away in a band that crossed a major vein channel. Family told doctors of a fall seven months prior that had cut her scalp.
In surgery, the team found tight cloth buried in the scalp as the cause. The cloth was fully removed. The authors urge scans and swift brain surgery review for such wounds. People with severe mental illness face extra risk when care is split and late, they note.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jonathan J Light, Gregory Topp, Michael Barats, Frank Genovese, Jared F Sweeney |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 21 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |