Complex trauma is the result of repeated or chronic traumatic experiences in childhood. The traumatic experiences have a pervasive impact on the child’s physical, sensory, emotional, cognitive and social growth. This paper discusses how the proposed diagnostic category, Complex Trauma Disorder, identifies clusters of symptoms and behaviors that suggest the need for a multimodal approach to ther...

Mucoceles are benign, epithelial-lined mucous cysts. Commonly mucoceles form secondary to obstruction of a sinus outflow tract or from mucosal gland entrapment from chronic infection, inflammation, iatrogenic trauma, external trauma, or neoplasm. We present a rare case of a nasal mucocele in a 37-year old male arising from a remote history of maxillofacial trauma. To our knowledge, mucoceles as...

BACKGROUND A chronic iliac arterial pseudoaneurysm caused by blunt trauma is very rare. CASE PRESENTATION The patient had gunshot wound in the right thigh and blunt trauma 40 years earlier. An abdominal computed tomography revealed the presence of a right iliac arterial pseudoaneurysm, and we successfully treated the pseudoaneurysm by resection and in situ reconstruction with a bifurcated vas...

Heart valve injuries due to non-penetrating blunt thoracic trauma are rare. Isolated tricuspid incompetence due to detachment of a leaflet from the annulus after blunt trauma is uncommon. Young patients may tolerate chronic tricuspid regurgitation (TR), and can be undiagnosed for years until the right ventricular failure occurs. We report the case of a young adult male who sustained blunt chest...

In the 1980s and early 1990s, as the mental health community became aware of the high prevalence of childhood maltreatment in adult psychiatric patients, attention turned toward identifying the symptoms and problems related to childhood abuse. Th is focus of inquiry had two purposes: (1) if specifi c psychiatric syndromes were related to childhood abuse, then treatment would benefi t from being...

Spinal chronic extradural hematomas are extremely rare and ecome clinically relevant when they affect the spinal cord nd/or nerve roots causing neurological symptoms [1,2]. A 53ear-old male presented to our hospital with a 9-month history of ain following an accidental trauma (sudden fall from a chair). e experienced a gradual onset of low back pain and also comlained of mild neurogenic claudic...