A 32-year old right-handed male presented to emergency room after going through a glass window during an altercation. At the time of the presentation, the patient admitted to the use of alcohol, and was not able to give clear history. Upon close physical exam, isolated, right distal volar-ulnar forearm laceration was identified with active bleeding (Figure 1). The patient demonstrated stable vi...

As a woman, labor experience could be best memory, but it was also became trauma for them especially perineum laceration. Perineum laceration occurred during process naturally or instrumentally (episiotomy, extraction). caused discomfort and pain heacting process. The fearness affected mother psychology. To minimize the laceration, perineal massage prevent grade II incidence. determined applica...

A 5-year-old male with a history of frequent upper respiratory infections presented following a motor vehicle crash as an unrestrained, ejected passenger. CT of the chest and abdomen showed a small liver laceration, multifocal peripheral lung opacities ( fig. 1 , black arrows) and extensive lung laceration ( fig. 1 , white arrow). The patient required supplemental oxygen, but no surgical interv...

Rectal lesions without anal sphincter trauma in childbirth are only sporadically described in literature. We describe the case of a 29-year-old primigravida who delivered a child in frank breech presentation. During the second stage of labour a foot presented transanally through a rectal laceration with intact anal sphincters. The laceration was repaired immediately after delivery in theatre. F...

OBJECTIVE To examine the patterns and predictors of third-degree and fourth-degree laceration in women undergoing vaginal delivery. METHODS We identified a population-based cohort of women in the United States who underwent a vaginal delivery between 1998 and 2010 using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample. Multivariable log-linear regression models were developed to account for patient, obstetric...

cardiac laceration from blunt thoracic trauma is not a common presentation. the rate of mortality due to this injury is very high since it is not diagnosed and treated immediately. in this study, we present the case of a 65-year-old man with blunt cardiac trauma, causing right atrial rupture and pericardial tamponade. successful management of this patient was firstly done with initial pericardi...

INTRODUCTION Penetrating injury to the forearm may cause an isolated radial or ulnar artery injury, or a complex injury involving other structures including veins, tendons and nerves. The management of forearm laceration with arterial injury involves both operative and nonoperative strategies. An evolution in management has emerged especially at urban trauma centers, where the multidisciplinary...

INTRODUCTION Massive rotator cuff tears (RCTs) in the context of shoulder dislocations are relatively uncommon in the young adult (<40 years) and if reported are more commonly described in association with acute traumatic anterior glenohumeral dislocations. They have rarely been described with posterior dislocations, regardless of patient age. This is the 1st case reported in the context of pos...

We report the case of a newborn who suffered right atrial laceration during delivery. To our knowledge, there has been no previous report of blunt injury causing right atrial laceration with hemopericardium complicated by cardiac tamponade in the perinatal period.