A 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 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 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 MoreCase presentation A 71 year old female presented to the emergency department complaining of right hip and flank pain that began approximately 1 month prior to arrival. Of note, she had a hysterectomy 2 years prior that was uneventful. She also stated that 15 days prior she noted redness and swelling in the same area […]
Read MoreCase Report We describe the case of a 90 year old patient with a giant gluteal lipoma having evolved over more than 20 years. The patient was well aware of this slow-growing painless mass on his right hip but refused any treatment. He was addressed to the surgical consultation by his family doctor for lameness […]
Read MoreCase Report An 11-year-old girl was transferred to The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, from a regional health centre with a penetrating neck injury. During recess at her school, she fell and lodged the sharpened end of a pencil into the left side of her neck. She was urgently transported by ambulance with […]
Read MoreCASE REPORT A 41 year old man was referred to our center with the abdominal enlargement and stiffening due to the masses (Figure 1). Workup showed no other symptoms, and the routine laboratory tests were as follows: The patient underwent the surgery for the removal of the mass (Figure (Figure 2). After opening the abdomen, a mass […]
Read MoreCase Report A 15-year-old boy reported to emergency department with history of fall from a tree onto a wooden fence and sustained a penetrating injury from a wooden piece [Fig-1]. There was no evidence of facial nerve injury. CT scan revealed that the foreign body was superficial to the investing layer of deep cervical fascia […]
Read MoreCase Study In 2011, a 6 year old boy with orbital trauma in the form of a foreign object having penetrated his right eye attended the Ophthalmology Department of Imam Khomeini Hospital in Kermanshah. According to his parents, he suddenly fell when playing and a pencil went directly into the upper part of his right […]
Read MoreAbstract Fournier’s gangrene is a potentially fatal emergency condition characterized by necrotizing fasciitis and supported by an infection of the external genital, perineal and perianal region, with a rapid and progressive spread from subcutaneous fat tissue to fascial planes. Keywords: Fournier’s gangrene, Necrotizing Fasciitis, Surgery, Infection Case report A 52 year old man with a history […]
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