BACKGROUND A 65-year woman injured by automobile had an open-book type pelvic fracture and extraperitoneal bladder rupture. CASE PRESENTATION Non-surgical management was selected because of suspected minor leakage. A follow-up CT cystography on day 21 showed a large urinoma. In the sagittal reconstruction CT images, the bladder was displaced downwards. Surgery was performed. Surgical findings...

Myiasis is a disease of vertebrate animals caused by different fly larvae. Wohlfahrtia magnifica is responsible for serious losses in animal husbandry in Eurasia. Larvae of W. magnifica parasitize several warm-blooded vertebrates and are responsible for a severe traumatic myiasis of mucosal membranes or wounds. This myiasis has been reported in many European areas, but for the first time was re...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the toxic, analgesic and clinical effects associated with intrathecal administration of propofol in sheep. Five, healthy adult non-pregnant Awassi sheep were used in the study. Propofol (2.85 mg/kg; n = 4) or normal saline (control, n = 1) was administered into the subarachnoid space at the lumbosacral intervertebral junction. Animals were assessed cl...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the etiological characteristics and visual outcomes of ocular trauma with more attention to eyelid laceration. METHODS In a cross-sectional study, 98 cases of isolated traumatic eyelid laceration were consecutively studied and its epidemiology, etiology and association with visual outcome were evaluated. The findings of this study could be used to...

OBJECTIVE To learn about neck lacerations caused by skate blades in hockey. DESIGN A retrospective Web-based survey and follow-up of registered USA Hockey players. SETTING Three hundred twenty-eight thousand eight hundred twenty-one of 457 038 registered USA Hockey players with a current e-mail address were contacted and invited to participate in the survey. PARTICIPANTS Of 26 589 players...

A 59-year-old man was hospitalized with acid reflux and diarrhea. Colonoscopy was performed while the patient was under propofol anesthesia, and no abnormalities were observed. However, at 3.5 hours following the colonoscopy, the patient had persistent dull pain in the lower abdomen. Physical examination indicated abdominal tenderness and rebound tenderness. The results of a digital rectal exam...