Background: In case of a stab wound to the lower cervical region and upper dorsal region, many organs are prone damage, including lung, heart, pericardium, any vessels in thoracic cage, esophagus or trachea, duct, even spinal cord.
 Case Report: A 19 year-old patient arrived at emergency department with swollen painful between internal border left scapula T2 vertebra. The had history stree...

Penetrating spinal cord injuries caused by stab wounds are rare. Such injuries may result from a direct lesion of the neural elements of the spinal cord, cord infarcts or, more rarely, intradural or epidural hematoma. In the present study, two cases with spinal cord and L4 root injuries caused by a knife are presented. The first case, a 22-year-old male, referred to our emergency outpatient cli...

A series of 100 penetrating wounds of the abdomen and thorax is reviewed. Eighty-three were due to stab-wounds. The recent increase in incidence is confirmed and the distribution throughout the day and months of the year is given. The results and methods of treatment of thirtysix abdominal, ten thoraco-abdominal and thirtyseven thoracic wounds are given and described. An operative approach to a...