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Book Review
The Transorbital Intracranial Penetrating Injury
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The Transorbital Intracranial Penetrating Injury. By Martin Th A van Duinen. Pp 176; £58. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999. ISBN 0-7923-5915-1.
Many of us, although not quite there yet, dream of retirement and specifically what we will do with all the time. Doctor van Duinen came with up with an interesting solution—to review a relatively rare condition of relevance to neurosurgeons but also of interest to ophthalmologists. The topic he selected was that of the transorbital intracranial penetrating injury (TIPI). He reviewed all the cases in the literature including two dissertations and came up with 347 cases.
The rarity of …