Human Bite on Nose

[The primary closure approach of dog bite injuries of the nose].

INTRODUCTION Biting of humans by domestic animals, especially by dogs, is common injury which causes suffering and pain, might be a cause of disability or even death. It is associated with high risk of bacterial infection of the wounds or even transfection of rabies virus. Bites are usually to the upper and lower limbs, while the face is third in a raw localization of bites. Within the face, th...

Infant death after nose-horned viper (Vipera ammodytes ammodytes) bite in Croatia: A case report.

A case of a 45-day-old male infant, bitten on the neck by nose-horned viper (Vipera ammodytes ammodytes), is reported. This episode occurred while the baby was on a picnic with his parents in a hill near a town in southern Croatia. In spite of immediate arrival at hospital, where antivenom was administrated and all the necessary treatment measures were carried out, the infant died 6 h following...

On the Nose

Herpes simplex from a human bite.

To the Editor: In a report by Drs. Fuortes and Melson on a nurse developing a herpes simplex infection following a human bite, 1 they fail to cite a work by del Rosario et al. on a patient developing a primary herpes simplex virus infection on the side of the neck acquired from a hickey (or " love bite "); the so-called " herpetic hickey." 2 Although the risk of receiving a hickey in the health...

Involuntary human bite to the eyebrow.

Human bites to the face are very rare and only one case of human bite to the eyebrow has so far been reported. The final functional and cosmetic result of reconstruction mainly depends on the size of the injury, the viability of the tissue and the promptness of surgical intervention. We here present one case of human bite to the eyebrow that resulted in complete avulsion and loss of tissue due ...