The FT recipient was a 41-year-old male firefighter who sustained a full facial and total scalp burn injury in 2001 while in the line of duty. Following his initial injury, the patient had undergone >70 reconstructive procedures without improvement in functional or esthetic outcomes (Fig. 1). August 2015, the patient underwent a total face, eyelids, ears, […]
Read MoreFor 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 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 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 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 […]
Read MoreEugene 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 […]
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