Eugene Vernyuy Yeika, Derrick Tembi Efie, Paul Nkemtendong Tolefac, and Joseph Nkeangu Fomengia Case presentation Herein, we present the case of a 65-year-old black African woman, who was referred to their centre for the management of a massive ascites. She presented with a 5-year history of progressive abdominal distension. She had no abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting or […]
Read MoreCase Report A 54 year old man with a past medical history significant only for hypertension presented to the clinic with a large soft tissue growth onhislower back which had been present for the past 20 years. The patient had an unremarkable physical exam except for the large soft tissue mass over the lower back, […]
Read MoreCASE REPORT We present a case for a 38 years old male, who tripped on the platform besides the running train. Immediate investigation and CT scan revealed a large degloving injury of his left hand up to metacarpophalangeal joint and forearm up to the level proximal of the elbow. The distal phalanx of the left […]
Read MoreCase Report A 20 years old woman whose lungs were destroyed by the coronavirus received a double lung transplant last week at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. She was ill for about two weeks before being admitted to the hospital on April 26. She soon needed a ventilator. Her condition kept worsening, and doctors connected […]
Read MoreA woman presented at a hospital with a history of domestic violence involving a sickle. The attack resulted in the degloving and avulsion of the left upper hemi-face, including the nose, forehead skin, eyebrow, upper and lower eyelids, and part of the cheek. Despite the severity of the injuries, the globe of the eye and […]
Read MoreYogesh C. Bhatt, Sumer Singh,* Piyush Doshi, and Sanjay G. Vaghani The flap was planned in reverse with pivot point 5 cm above the lateral malleolus with a narrow base between lateral malleolus and tendoachilles. To avoid injury to the important communicating vessels, an area of 5 cm above the lateral malleolus is kept undisturbed. The flapcan be […]
Read MoreThe patient is a 30-year-old female, who presented to the ED in extreme pain after walking in the woods and being attacked by an unknown animal. There were significant wounds to her left leg, forearm, shoulder, back, ear, and face with substantial skin, subcutaneous tissue, and muscle damage. She received a tetanus booster, antibiotics, rabies […]
Read MoreAuthors: L M Levitz, T R Carmichael, and M Nissenbaum The ostrich is a strange and harmless looking bird; however, in Africa attacks by ostriches on humans are not uncommon and sometimes result in death. We recently treated such a patient with an eye injury. Case report A 35 year old male patient presented with an injury sustained […]
Read MoreAn 11-week-old human fetus that has died in the womb has gone through ‘Diaphonization’: Cleaned & given chemical compounds to bring out the color of the soft tissue, especially the original transparent skin. Scientists do it to examine the diseases that cause miscarriages. What is a miscarriage? Miscarriage is when an embryo or fetus dies before the 20th week […]
Read MoreRelease pericardial tamponade and control cardiac hemorrhageThe highest survival rate following EDT is in patients with penetrating cardiac wounds, especially when associated with pericardial tamponade [7,17]. Early recognition of cardiac tamponade, prompt pericardial decompression, and control of cardiac hemorrhage are the key components to successful EDT and patient survival following penetrating wounds to the heart […]
Read MoreCase report A 55 year old male farmer from Daporijo, Arunachal Pradesh, was referred to our hospital in September 28, 2015, with history of bear mauling. He went to the forest to hunt and tame wild bovines (Bos frontalis). He unexpectedly came across a bear (Ursus thibetanus). The bear attacked his upper body as he […]
Read MoreCase Report A three year old Amerindian girl presented without warning to emergency department (ED) in the country’s only tertiary care hospital, after being attacked by a jaguar in the remote Isseneru Village, Cuyuni-Mazaruni (Region 7), Guyana. Her mother says that she turned away from the child to tend to the clothes when she heard […]
Read MoreAuthors: Parichehr Ghalayani,1 Zahra Saberi,2 and Farimah Sardari2 CASE REPORTS Five members of a family, a mother and her four offsprings, referred to the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine to be diagnosed and received oral and dental treatments. During clinical examination, we found clinical manifestations of neurofibromatosis in all of them. We have described all of them […]
Read MoreA 39 year old healthy woman was attacked by a shark while on vacation, and sustained severe injuries to her left lateral thigh as well as her left arm. Operative procedures performed included the repair of multiple muscles, tendons, and nerve lacerations to the left forearm with closure under tension. In addition, closure of the […]
Read MoreIdiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. Views of the heart in a 61-year-old woman who had had evidence of chronic heart failure since age 51 years. She did reasonably well on medical therapy until age 59 years, when the heart failure worsened considerably and an implantable cardiac defibrillator was inserted. During the 2 years before transplant, the heart […]
Read MoreCase Report A 46 year old right handed male patient sustained an injury when his dominant hand was caught in a block cutting machine he was working on. He was conscious, oriented, appeared pale and had a BP of 90/60 mm Hg. His right forearm stump showed evidence of crush injury, (Fig 1). The amputated […]
Read MoreDoctors have filmed the horrifying moment they removed a fishing hook from a man’s eyeball. The footage, filmed in Spain, shows the hook stuck in the centre of a man’s eye, as medical professionals add liquid to the eye to prepare to remove the shark hook. A thin metal scalpel is inserted into the iris […]
Read MoreA man named Leon, had a motorcycle accident 15 years ago which left him with a mass of scar tissue, creating a keloid tumor that grew heavier every day. After undergoing surgery, the tumor was successfully removed and a skin graft was used to patch up the remaining wound around his jaw. Leon after surgery […]
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