Colloidal carbon was introduced intravenously into young rats to label circulating monocytes before the stabbing of the brain. The rats were sacrificed 1 to 14 days after the stab wound. In the rats sacrificed between 3 to 7 days after the stabbing, numerous phagocytic cells were present in the needle wound. Electron microscope study showed that some of these phagocytic cells carried intracytop...

conclusions although evaluations of the initial vital signs and physical examinations are still important, the history regarding the source of the stab wounds (aisw vs. sisw) may be helpful in determining the appropriate treatment methods and predicting patient outcomes. results a total of 19 patients had undergone exploratory laparotomy. of the nine patients with sisw undergoing this procedure...

We would like to present a case report of a very unusual suicide attempt. A 48-year-old female patient tried to commit suicide by stabbing herself with a kitchen knife into her neck. Suicide by self-stabbing is uncommon, constituting only 1-3% of suicide attempts. Patients with self-inflicted stab wounds may have a higher incidence of surgical interventions based on the stab location. Surprisin...

We consider a Delaunay triangulation defined on n points distributed independently and uniformly on a planar compact convex set of positive volume. Let the stabbing number be the maximal number of intersections between a line and edges of the triangulation. We show that the stabbing number Sn is Θ( √ n) in the mean, and provide tail bounds for P{Sn ≥ t √ n}. Applications to planar point locatio...

CLINICAL HISTORY A 17-year-old adolescent girl was seen with a 4-year history of head pain which, initially, was occasional. After gradually increasing in frequency during the last year, this pain has been occurring daily. She describes a stabbing pain in the left or right temple lasting seconds. She often has multiple recurring pains (pain for seconds, brief remission, recurrent pain, etc) wit...

Given a set S of n line segments in the plane, we say that a region R ⊆ R is a stabber for S ifR contains exactly one endpoint of each segment of S. In this paper we provide optimal or near-optimal algorithms for reporting all combinatorially different stabbers for several shapes of stabbers. Specifically, we consider the case in which the stabber can be described as the intersection of axis-pa...