Traumatic false aneurysm of the thoracic aorta is not uncommon. But accordingly this case is unusual in its ten year delay between injury and presentation and treatment. A victim of the Iran-Iraq war is presented with a false aneurysm of the thoracic aorta ten years after a bullet injury to the chest and thoracic spine. Penetrating chest wounds, mechanisms of injury and diagnosis are also ...

From their vast experience, gathered during several wars and from practicing and teaching surgery for many years, the authors suggest some common-sense approaches to the most frequently found extremity and non-penetrating wounds of the trunk encountered in combat. They discuss the first operation, wound excision, wound debn'dement, immobIlization of fractures, the prevention of infection, amput...

ALTHOUGH wounds of the heart have interested man from antiquity, it was not until 1896 that the first successful repair of a cardiac laceration was carried out by Rehn.1 By 1958 with the advent of modern diagnostic and surgical technics there were many comprehensive reports of penetrating heart wounds with survival (cited by Parmley et al.2 ). In civilian practice the majority of such penetrati...

ALTHOUGH wounds of the heart have interested man from antiquity, it was not until 1896 that the first successful repair of a cardiac laceration was carried out by Rehn.1 By 1958 with the advent of modern diagnostic and surgical technics there were many comprehensive reports of penetrating heart wounds with survival (cited by Parmley et al.2 ). In civilian practice the majority of such penetrati...

OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiology of work related injury in a group of small scale, independent commercial fishers. DESIGN Cross sectional survey (baseline instrument of a prospective cohort study). SETTING AND SUBJECTS Commercial fishers in eastern North Carolina. RESULTS A cohort of 219 commercial fishers was established and 215 subjects completed an injury questionnaire. The main ...