While accidental trauma is the most common cause of death in childhood, abusive head trauma is the most common cause of traumatic death in infancy. The incidence of abusive head trauma in the United States is estimated to be 15 per 1000 children each year, though this may be an underestimation. Nearly 25% of children under 2 years of age who are hospitalized for head trauma have been abused. Th...

Trauma sustained in motor vehicle collisions (MVCs) is the single most important cause of both fatal and mild brain injuries, causing 67% of all cases. The most common diagnosis given is concussion. The head and neck, being suspended at the end of a comparatively inflexible torso, are subject to high acceleration forces during a MVC that often result in injuries to these areas. In low-speed rea...

background invasive aspergillosis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in immunosuppressed patients. thisn infection is caused by aspergillus, a hyaline mold, which is the etiologic agent for many different manifestations. patient a 63 year old diabetic housewife woman, living in northern iran, presented with the history of right eye ptosis after a mild head trauma since about 3 weeks ag...

Objective: One of the most frequent causes of death and acquired disability in the pediatric population is the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). TBI is secondary to falls, road traffic and vehicle collisions, child abuse and assaults. Penetrating brain injury is a severe form of traumatic brain injury. Blunt head injury is more frequent than TBI in children, but the second one carries a poor progno...

BACKGROUND The peculiar anatomy of pancreatic ducts in pancreas divisum (PD) may interfere with the development of acute chronic pancreatitis. In the presented case, PD influenced the evolution of lesions after pancreatic trauma. CASE PRESENTATION A 38 years old patient refferred to our hospital with recurrent episodes of mild pancreatitis during the last two years. The first episode occurred...

this study represents an unusual case of mucormycosis localized in nasal cavity of a german shepherd dog. the patient was a 1-year-old male guard dog with unilateral nasal epistaxis, mucopurulent nasal discharge, sneezing and nose pawing. the dog had a history of head trauma about 2 months before admission, which was associated with mild self-limited epistaxis. initial nasal rhinoscopy showed s...

Aneurysm of gastroduodenal artery (GDA) is rare. Most reported cases are due to pancreatitis and atherosclerosis; however, those following pancreatic trauma have not been reported. We encoun- tered GDA aneurysm in a patient of blunt abdominal trauma, who had pancreatic contusion and retroduodenal air on contrast enhanced computed tomography of abdomen. Emergency laparotomy for suspected duodena...

STUDY OBJECTIVE We characterize the neurocognitive function of patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with mild traumatic brain injury. METHODS This prospective study took place at an urban, academic ED and Level I trauma center. Case patients consisted of a convenience sample of ED patients aged 18 to 59 years, presenting to the ED with mild traumatic brain injury and having a ...

BACKGROUND Sports-related head trauma is common but still there is no established laboratory test used in the diagnostics of minimal or mild traumatic brain injuries. Further the effects of recurrent head trauma on brain injury markers are unknown. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Olympic (amateur) boxing and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) brain injury biomarkers...