DESCRIPTION A 57-year-old man was admitted to the emergency department with blunt thoracic and abdominal trauma after being hit by a tree. CT of the thorax and abdomen was performed. Abdominal CT showed a large retroperitoneal haematoma secondary to an injury of celiac trunk; thoracic CT showed a right haemo-pneumothorax, a pneumomediastinum, a large basal lung contusion, a small dorsal right s...

A retrospective study of 661 adult patients with open scalp wounds attending the Accident and Emergency Department of Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, Scotland, was performed. Detailed information was recorded about history, nature of open wounds ('contused' or 'incised'), wound exploration and radiological findings. The commonest cause of injury was assault (40%), followed by falls (34%). Hal...

UNLABELLED The aim of the study was to assess the reliability of neurological examination and other factors in predicting traumatic cerebral lesions and skull fractures in patients with mild and moderate head trauma (GCS 10-15). MATERIAL AND METHODS Over a one-year period, 227 patients: 145 male and 82 female, aged a mean of 51 years who sustained mild or moderate head trauma (GSC 10-15) were...

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introduction: child abuse is one of the major problems of today’s societies ;so in developed countries supportive laws for children have been established. obvious manifestations of physical child abuse include: skin lesions (echymosis, erosion, biting), skull fractures and injury to the visceral organs. physicians should take child abuse in their consideration whenever they encounter skin manif...

One hundred three cases of skull fractures in or around the temporal bone were reviewed for hearing loss. Of these, 100 patients had skull series, 66 had computed tomographic head scans, and 44 had polytomographic studies of the temporal bone. Hearing loss in head trauma can be grouped into four categories: conductive hearing loss, peripheral sensorineural hearing loss, central sensorineural he...

Tne cases of growing fractures seen in the last 10 years are presented. Six of the patients sustained their injury within the first six months of life. The defects formed rapidly, several within two or three months after injury. There was enlargement of the defect in only one case after the date of discovery. Although the defects involved the parietal bone most commonly, in four out of 10 the l...