Dermatologists and child abuse are not frequently associated in the minds of most physicians. Yet the most common manifestations of child abuse are cutaneous. This article reviews cutaneous manifestations of physical abuse, including bruises, lacerations, abrasions, human bites, and burns. It also discusses ways that dermatologists can differentiate abusive injuries from accidental ones as well...

Anticoagulation instability due to a change in intake of vitamin K after dietary modification was observed in 2 patients on long-term oral anticoagulants. One patient developed diffuse bruises treated conservatively with fresh frozen plasma transfusion and the other had a thrombosed aortic prosthesis which required emergency operation. To prevent such complications, dietary modification especia...

BACKGROUND Slaughter reindeer are exposed to stress caused by gathering, handling, loading and unloading, and by conditions in vehicles during transport. These stress factors can lead to compromised welfare and trauma such as bruises or fractures, aspiration of rumen content, and abnormal odour in carcasses, and causing condemnations in meat inspection and lower meat quality. We investigated th...

The price of the fruits depends on the quality of the fruit. A fruit which has bruises will be sold in a lower price compared to a fruit with no bruises. In the fruit packing industry, traditionally, the sorting of the fruits is normally done manually for quality control before shipping to consumer. The use of human resource for sorting of fruits has various disadvantages. Thus the mechanized g...

A retrospective review of one hundred and seventy three cases of eclampsia seen between 1994 and 2002 was conducted. Twenty one patients (12.1%) whose ages ranged from 18 to 35 years sustained orofacial injuries during the course of their eclamptic fits. Lacerations and bruises on the tongue, gingivae and lips accounted for injuries in all the patients. Temporomandibular joint dislocation was a...

Introduction: Natalizumab is a new treatment for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Because of limited experience of this treatment, medical professionals must be alert to possible side effects. Case presentation: We present a 34-year-old Caucasian woman with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. She developed bruises on her legs after the first and second administrations of the new mono...

Assault victims can develop multiple complications from physical and psychological damage to aggravation of previous medical conditions, with many forensic consequences. A 51-year male, known with type 1 diabetes mellitus and autoimmune hypothyroidism, was the victim of a traumatic assault on the street. The patient had multiple bruises but no fractures. The bruises healed normally but anterior...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate presenting features, treatment modalities and response to therapy in children with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. METHODS The retrospective study was conducted at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, and comprised clinical data, presenting demographics, clinical spectrum, management and outcome of children admitted with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura fro...

Non-accidental head injury, be it shaking, impact(s) or a combination of the two, is characterised by subdural and/or subarachnoid haemorrhages with retinal haemorrhages, but minimal or absent external cranio-facial trauma. The classical assault scenario depicts the infant being gripped around the head, face, chest and abdomen and shaken or being gripped by a limb and swung. This gripping might...

Hyperspectral imaging technology was employed to detect slight bruises on Korla pears. The spectral data of 60 bruised samples and 60 normal samples were collected by a hyperspectral imaging system. To select the characteristic wavelengths for detection, several chemometrics methods were used on the raw spectra. Firstly, principal component analysis (PCA) was conducted on the spectra ranging fr...