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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>2444-054X</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Cirugía y cirujanos]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Cir. cir.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2444-054X</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Academia Mexicana de Cirugía A.C.]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
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<article-meta>
<article-id>S2444-054X2021000700106</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.24875/ciru.20001375</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Herida penetrante occipitocervical por pez aguja]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Penetrating occipitocervical injury caused by a needlefish]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Zambito-Brondo]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Gerardo F.]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Sánchez-Santa Ana]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Jorge F.]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Bustamante-Vidales]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Jesús C.]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Chalita Pérez-Tagle]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Christian A.]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Kleriga-Grossgerge]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Enrique]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Hospital Ángeles Lomas Departamento de Cirugía Neurológica ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Huixquilucan Estado de México]]></addr-line>
<country>México</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Hospital Ángeles Lomas Departamento de Medicina Interna ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Huixquilucan Estado de México]]></addr-line>
<country>México</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2021</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2021</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>89</volume>
<fpage>106</fpage>
<lpage>108</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2444-054X2021000700106&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2444-054X2021000700106&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2444-054X2021000700106&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Las heridas penetrantes por pez aguja son poco comunes. La mayor parte de los reportes han sido en la región Indo-Pacífico. Reportamos un caso de herida penetrante occipitocervical ocurrida en el Pacífico tropical mexicano y se describe el tratamiento de esta lesión.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Penetrating injuries caused by needlefish are very uncommon. Most of them have been reported in the Indo-Pacific region. We report a case of an occipito-cervical penetrating injury that occurred in the Mexican Tropical Pacific, and we describe the treatment of this injury.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Pez aguja]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Lesión penetrante]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Lesión marina]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Pacífico tropical mexicano]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Needlefish]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Penetrating injury]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Marine injury]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Mexican Tropical Pacific]]></kwd>
</kwd-group>
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