Overview

• He spent 48 hours alone at home conscious and speaking incoherently before being admitted to Torrette Hospital in Ancona.
• Professor Maurizio Iacoangeli’s team leveraged the arrow’s carbon composition in CT scans to plan the extraction without triggering a life-threatening hemorrhage.
• The arrow’s trajectory narrowly avoided critical structures such as the pericallosal artery and superior sagittal sinus, where a millimeter’s deviation could have been fatal.
• Postoperative care focuses on preventing infection after two days without food or water and supporting recovery through cerebral plasticity.
• Local authorities are probing the incident to determine whether it was an accidental discharge or an intentional act.