Robert Chelsea suffered severe injuries after getting hit by a drunk driver in 2013. After months of waiting for the right donor, the first African American man to undergo a full face transplant is recovering from a successful procedure. Chelsea has led a difficult life the last few years — he was left severely disfigured […]
Read MoreCase Report A 30-year-old male victim of railway track injury was brought to the emergency department by police. He had a lacerated/partly avulsed wound over face, involving forehead, nose and left cheek, with traumatic evisceration of left eye [Figure 1]. On arrival, the patient was found to have a threatened airway in view of extensive […]
Read MoreA woman sustained severe facial injuries in a rollover automobile accident after the driver lost control of the small car, which was carrying five passengers and not equipped with airbags. The 30-year-old woman was in the back seat and not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the accident. Although one witness claimed that no […]
Read MoreSix weeks after premature birth, a female infant who was being treated in the neonatal intensive care unit was found to have severe abdominal distention. She had been born at 23 weeks of gestation by emergency cesarean section because of premature rupture of membranes; her weight was 520 g at birth. She had been growing […]
Read MoreCase Report This is a 16-year-old boy who experienced physical aggression in urban fight. He was assaulted by a screwdriver and had stab wound on the anterior face of the chest. He was transported from St. Louis, 192 km away, to our facility by ambulance in a stable hemodynamic status and arrived 8 hours later. Physical […]
Read MoreCase Report We report a case of a massive soft tissue injury in an Afghani soldier who suffered an IED injury. The primary goal of soft tissue reconstruction for highvelocity trauma should be primary closure of the wound with coverage of the bone and plates. Because of the temporary cavity trauma, extensive tissue undermining and […]
Read MoreShin-Taeg Kang, Chan-Ha Hwang,Bo-Hyeon Kim, and Byung-Yoon Sung* CASE REPORT Paramedics brought a 45-yr-old man into our medical center immediately after a high-velocity crush injury. On admission to the emergency room, the patient was noted to have a large open wound in anterior aspect of left knee. His left foot was pale and cool. Distal pulses of dorsalis […]
Read Morea police chief was struck in the face by an AK-47 and sustained extensive facial injuries that included the loss of most of the left zygomaticomaxillary complex, a shattered left zygomatic arch, orbital rim and floor, loss of most of his nose, and a gaping wound of the left midface (Fig. 1). A “home run” […]
Read MoreCase report A 25-year-old male camel care giver presented to the Emergency Department of Al-Ain Hospital 1 h after being bitten several times in the left side of his head and neck by a 15-year-old male camel. The injury occurred in the farm while the patient was trying to feed the camel. The camel turned […]
Read MoreThe principles of microvascular free tissue transfer in war wounds are not different from civilian trauma. Muscle flaps are preferred over fasciocutaneous flaps to fill the large size defects and to combat the local infection. Today, the reconstructive surgeon with the help of microvascular techniques is able to reconstruct large complex defects as compared to […]
Read MoreSibraogo Kiemtoré,1,2Hyacinthe Zamané,1,2Yobi Alexis Sawadogo,1Rodrigue Sansan Sib,3Evelyne Komboigo,2Ali Ouédraogo,1 and Blandine Bonané1,2 Sociodemographic characteristics of the patient The patient was a 25-year-old woman who dropped school early and got married with a single farmer. She lived with her husband in Kongoussi, a rural commune about 100 km from Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso. She did not […]
Read MoreCase Report A 30-year-old cheesemaker presented in their emergency room with a severe mutilating avulsion injury of the hand and forearm. His right adominant hand was pulled in a cheese cutting machine with six circular saw blades working in opposition to each other. He sustained a midcarpal amputation of the hand, a complete avulsion of […]
Read MoreAn Indonesian man living with various tumours on his body is unable to get rid of them. 34-year-old Andriadi Putra has been told by doctors that he was born with Neurofibromatosis, a rare genetic disorder that causes tumours to form on nerve tissue. Andriadi finds it difficult to walk and is in pain on a […]
Read More50 year old Diabetic and Hypertensive was admitted in Medical intensive care unit with infection in the foot. He was referred to plastic surgery for management of infection in the foot. He underwent surgical debridement followed by negative pressure wound therapy. followed by skin grafting. The results are shown below Patient and relatives were satifsfied […]
Read MoreA young gentleman presented to us with an open injury with multiple fractures around the knee joint. he was managed by: Knee spanning external fixator Surgical debridement and primary wound closure Dr. N. JithendranM.S. (Orthopaedics), M.Ch (Plastic Surgery), D.N.B. (Plastic Surgery)Consultant Plastic And Reconstructive Surgeon
Read MoreHydrocephalus: Hydrocephalus is a condition in which an accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) occurs within the brain. This typically causes increased pressure inside the skull. Hydrocephalus can occur due to birth defects or be acquired later in life. Associated birth defects include neural tube defects and those that result in aqueductal stenosis. Other causes include meningitis, brain tumors, traumatic brain injury, intraventricular hemorrhage, and subarachnoid hemorrhage. The four types of hydrocephalus are communicating, […]
Read MoreCase Report Patient E, a 19-year-old man, was admitted to hospital for treatment of third- to fourth-degree electrical burns to 17% of the surface of the head, neck, and right upper and lower limbs. He was injured on August 09, 2012, in the line of duty while performing military service. Over the period of 3 […]
Read MoreChemical burns are not as common as thermal burns, but they’re just as destructive to human tissue. In this particular instance the individual committed suicide by drinking a large quantity of sulfuric acid. Sulfuric acid is particularly nasty because it’s chemical composition quickly destroys the lipid membrane of cells and denatures proteins, causing instant cellular […]
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