Girish S. Mishra, MS1 and Sushen Harish Bhatt, MS1 Case History A 68-year-old female, member of low socioeconomic community, presented to the casualty with history of hit over the right eye by a bull horn during her daily agricultural activities. She complained of sudden and painful loss of vision in the right eye. She also had a […]
Read MoreAn 18-year-old Chinese girl was referred to us with a severe facial deformity that had been present since her birth. The deformity was associated with poor speech intelligibility and feeding disturbances. Clinical examination demonstrated a severe maxillary defect and bilateral zygoma hypoplasia accompanied by nose and mandible deformities. Her mouth opening was normal, and no […]
Read MoreAll soft tissue injuries were treated with primary intention following debridement, irrigation, and primary surgical intervention by different methods depending on the defect size and location. They explained probable complications of primary intention to all patients and informed consents were obtained from all patients before surgical interventions. The medical ethics committee of their hospital approved […]
Read MoreA 68-year-old Caucasian female was admitted to our clinic, with suspected deep venous thrombosis, presenting with pain in her left calf that had lasted for 3 weeks starting after a very painful nocturnal leg cramp, and worsened over the last few days. At the time of admission, she had also experienced 5 days of malaise […]
Read MoreFulvio Tartara,1 Elena Virginia Colombo,1 Daniele Bongetta,2 Giulia Pilloni,1,* Carlo Bortolotti,3 Davide Boeris,4 Francesco Zenga,5 Alessia Giossi,6 Alfonso Ciccone,7 Maria Sessa,6 and Marco Cenzato4 Materials and Methods We retrospectively collected 15 non-consecutive cases of ischemic stroke treated with strokectomy between March 2010 and December 2017 in two different Hospital (Ospedale Molinette Torino; Ospedale Maggiore, Cremona). The study is an historical cohort study (retrospective, purely observational, non-sponsored): […]
Read MoreNeerod K Jha,1Husam Z Ouda,2Javed A Khan,1Gregory P Eising,1 and Norbert Augustin1 Case presentation A 54 years-old-hypertensive male patient was presented to us with history of recent inferior wall myocardial infarction (MI) which was managed with medical treatment in the referring hospital. On clinical examination, there was a 3/6 ejection systolic murmur along the left lower sternal […]
Read MoreA 60-year-old woman presented to the oral surgery clinic with gingival swelling. She had a history of colorectal cancer, which had been diagnosed a year earlier, for which she had undergone surgery and received chemotherapy. She first noticed the mass after bleeding occurred while she was brushing her teeth. On examination, a large, nontender, pedunculated […]
Read MoreAbdus Samad Ansari, Zain Amir, and Gwyn S. Williams Abstract Introduction Treatment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)-associated uveitis necessitates the use of long-term corticosteroids or immunosuppressive agents, each of which poses their own significant side effect profile. Initial treatment requires intensive topical glucocorticoids, with a step-up approach employing immunosuppressive agents for those cases with poor […]
Read MoreDogbites are common cause of visit in the ER. Pit-bulls like in this case are the most common aggressors. Antibiotic therapy its very important since this are contaminated wounds. This patient arrived at 11pm and was rushed to the ER, for debridement and wound cleaning, the facial artery was ligated (since it had active bleeding) […]
Read MoreRobert 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 […]
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