introduction: screening of patients with anterior abdominal penetrating trauma in need for laparotomy is an important issue in management of these cases. this study aimed to compare the accuracy of abdominal wall ultrasonography (awu) and local wound exploration (lwe) in this regard. methods: this diagnostic accuracy study was conducted on ≥ 18 year-old patients presenting to emergency departme...

BACKGROUND Although spinal cord injuries are frequent causes of myelopathy in young patients, stab wounds of the spinal cord rarely occur and are typically maximal symptomatic immediately after the trauma. CASE DESCRIPTION A 31-year-old male developed delayed onset of symptoms 4 years after a stab wound to the cervical spinal cord attributed to a plant needle (plant called Mandacaru). Followi...

conclusions it seems serial clinical examinations are safe and decrease the cost and duration of hospitalization in stable patients with anterior abdominal wall stab wounds. results ninety-one men (91%) and 9 women (9%) with mean age of 27 ± 10.7 years were included. coexisting injuries were prevalent in 12 cases. the duration of hospitalization was 1 day in 31%, 2 days in 30%, 3 - 4 days in 32...

A case of a transcranial stab wound is presented in which the patient was stabbed in the left temporal bone with a knife which, after traversing the tentorium, passed through the occipital squama and its tip reached the upper cervical area. The subject underwent surgery and was discharged without neurological sequelae. The fundamental principles of management in this specific type of head ...

A MAN named B., about 22 years of age, strong and muscular, of middle height, porter by occupation, was admitted into the Civil Hospital of Gujranwala 011 16th August 1902, suffering from a stab wound of left side of his abdomen, which was received in a fight. The wound was situated between 10th and 11th rib in anterior axillary line on left side. From the wound was protruding a piece of omentu...

Background: Stab wounds are common in homicide cases. Post-mortem multislice computed tomography (PMCT) has proved to be a useful tool in forensic examinations of victims of sharp force trauma, but due the limited resolution of soft tissues, the radiological depiction of a stab channel is difficult. In this study, we have tried to obtain information about the shape of a knife blade by CT scanni...