BACKGROUND Splenic injury is normally associated with trauma, but spontaneous splenic rupture has been described in various systemic diseases. CASE PRESENTATION A 56-year-old male on oral anticoagulation presented to the emergency department with epigastric pain, nausea, and left upper quadrant tenderness. There was no history of trauma. Contrast-enhanced CT imaging revealed a large subcapsul...

PURPOSE To highlight good visual outcome with intravitreal amikacin administered 18 days following trauma-inducing vancomycin resistant enterococcal endophthalmitis treated initially with vitrectomy and oral linezolid. OBSERVATIONS Despite initial vitrectomy, intravitreal vancomycin, ceftazidime and oral linezolid, smoldering vitreous infiltrates prompted treatment with intravitreal amikacin ...

S16 Biomaterials and Biotechnologies (in collaboration with S.I.B.O.T.) In-Depth Oral Presentations Oral Communications S20 Hand and Wrist (in collaboration with G.I.S.C.M.-G.I.M.E.T.R.A.) In-Depth Oral Presentations S21 Hip (in collaboration with S.I.d.A.) Oral Communications S25 Paediatric Orthopaedics (in collaboration with S.I.T.O.P.) Oral Communications S27 Infections (in collaboration wit...

This article focuses on the traumatic memory of technogenic disasters in human history XX and early XXI. The uses method oral history, which is based biographical testimonies people who were at epicenter explosion Chernobyl nuclear power plant Fukushima-1 plant. notes that trauma its study are becoming more common today scientific interests researchers various sciences, namely concept - continu...

No detailed analyses have been undertaken on the effects of Health Promoting Schools on oral health status. The objective of this study was to assess whether the oral health of 12-year-old children in supportive schools, where health promoting policies had been developed, was better than that of children in non-supportive schools. A sample of 1823 12-year-old children in 33 public (government-f...