Abstract
In 2003, after the second Gulf War, the authors were medical doctors at the humanitarian Mission of the Red Cross Field Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq. Our experience in the fi eld indicated that civilians were at a high risk for injuries caused by stray bullets. Whilst we were attending an out-patient activity, we saw a 10-year old boy with a deep lesion of the skin in the left frontal-parietal area of his head caused by a stray bullet 2 months earlier. The bullet had entered the upper parietal portion of the skull (fi gures A, B). Clinical and neurological examination showed no defi cit of power, cognition, sense of touch, or speech. Blood test results were unremarkable. The scalp A stray bullet in the brain
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