For fifteen years, Richard Norris had a face too hideous to show. Then, one day, a maverick doctor gave him a miracle too fantastic to believe. Richard got a face transplant, a new life, and a new set of burdens too strange to predict. He is 37 year old who had sustained a shotgun facial […]
Read MoreA 41-year-old male patient presented to Khoula Hospital, Muscat, Oman, in 2015 with nine amputated fingers. While operating a paper cutting machine, eight of the patient’s fingers were amputated through the proximal phalanges, while the right thumb was amputated through the distal phalanx [Figure 1]. The total ischaemia time when the patient was received at […]
Read MoreA 44-year-old male presented to our department with an amputated thumb with radial part of the hand (Fig. 1). His injury was occurred by an electrical saw. The index finger circulation was intact. The margins of both the parts were crushed and severely damaged. Under general anesthesia and tourniquet control, they explored the wound. After […]
Read MoreA 31-year-old male was assaulted with scissors by his wife because of his betrayal when he was sleeping. His penile glans was almost completely cutoff. There was massive bleeding after penile amputation. He had been sent to two medical center, but finally he was transferred to our urological center. Warm ischemia had lasted 6 hours […]
Read MoreAn 18-year-old otherwise healthy woman was attacked by a family dog and suffered a bite to the central part of the face (Fig 1). The avulsed tissue was conserved in a plastic bag within another plastic bag with iced water. It consisted of the nose tip, the entire left ala, half of the right ala […]
Read MoreA 35 year old male patient reported to emergency OPD with history of bear attack when he had gone to the jungle to graze his cattle. There was history of loss of consciousness for half an hour but no history of vomiting and ENT bleeding. On examination the patient was stable, neurological and cervical spine examinations […]
Read MoreA 17 year old male presented to the emergency room 2 hours after sustaining an amputation of his nose and upper lip as he was ejected through the windshield in a motor vehicle accident. The amputated nose and upper lip had been wrapped in gauze and placed on ice at the scene of the accident. […]
Read MoreA 19-year-old man from Kosovo was working on a farm when an agricultural machine ran over his leg causing severe injuries. The patient underwent a complicated operation comprising of debridement of devitalised tissue, soft tissue reconstruction and external fixation of broken bone segments. After a period of several months he managed to walk again. Case […]
Read MoreA 77 year old bear hunter Glenn Bohn from Wasilla who found himself the hunted along the Denali Highway in mid April. A grizzly jumped him and tried to tear off his face. He was saved by his son, who shot and killed the bear while it was savaging Bohn. The bear scalped the old man. […]
Read MoreThe virus mainly spreads through respiratory droplets, particles produced by infected people that are breathed in or touched by others.For a visual demonstration of how masks can help, we teamed up with UNC School of Medicine virology professor Dr. Dirk Dittmer. We talked, sang, coughed, and sneezed both with and without a mask into a […]
Read MoreH. Sudhoff, 1 ,* H. J. Hoff, 2 and M. Lehmann 1 Case Report A 48-year-old German safety officer suffered compression injury to his cranial vault whilst examining a pressing machine (Figure 1(a)). The accidental onset of the machine resulted in severe compression of his skull. This led to compound comminuted skull and facial fractures (parietal, sphenoid, frontal, orbital rim, ethmoid, […]
Read MoreERIC G. HALVORSON, DUC T. BUI, AND PETER G. CORDEIRO Following vertical rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap coverage of a type IIIB defect, this patient had too much bulk in the orbit preventing placement of an ocular prosthesis. Direct excision combined with liposuction improved flap contour and provided an appropriate platform for prosthetic fitting. A staged “nasolabial” […]
Read MoreA 7-month-old male infant was brought to the hospital after being found by his foster parents to be inconsolable and crying. He was up-to-date on his immunizations and met all his developmental milestones. Significant birth history included intrauterine exposure to methamphetamine, with a positive methamphetamine drug screen at birth, and subsequent removal from his mother […]
Read MoreSatyajeet Verma, Manish Varma, Sanjay Kala, and RK Singh CASE REPORT A 68-year-old male presented to our surgical outpatient department with a huge lump at the back of his neck for the last 11 years. There was an ulcer at the top of the lump for the last 9 months. Episodic bleeding was also reported from the ulcer for […]
Read MoreBackground The use of examination gloves is part of the standard precautions to prevent medical staff from transmission of infectious agents between patients. Gloves also protect the staff from infectious agents originating from patients. Adequate protection, however, depends on intact gloves. The risk of perforation of examination gloves is thought to correlate with duration of […]
Read MoreCase presentation A 35-year-old man, non-diabetic, non-hypertensive, married, having two children with normal erectile function, presented 4 h after sustaining gunshot injury to the left side of chest and left upper limb (figure 1). There were no injuries to the external genitalia. On evaluation, he had left pneumo-haemothorax which was relieved with insertion of intercostal chest […]
Read MoreDevin Hall, a 67-year-old retired postal inspector in Northern California. While he faces stage 3 prostate cancer, Hall is also fighting a $7,109.70 out-of-network ambulance bill from American Medical Response, the nation’s largest ambulance provider. On Dec. 27, 2016, Hall went to a local hospital with rectal bleeding. Since the hospital didn’t have the right specialist to […]
Read MoreAuthors: Josher Molendijk, BSc, MSc,1 Bob Vervloet, BSc, MSc,1 Eppo B. Wolvius, DDS, MD, PhD,1 and Maarten J. Koudstaal, MD, DDS, PhD1 Case A 29-year-old man was hit directly in the face by a rocket in the night of January 1, 2011. The patient was seen at the emergency department of our institution according to the Advanced Trauma Life […]
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