Six cases of blows with glass bottles on the skull are reported. The glass bottles varied in size, weight, shape and filling level. In all cases the bottles broke, but there were no fractures of the skull or injuries of the brain or meninges. As consequences of the blows with the glass bottles bruises, lacerations and incised wounds were seen. The only cause contributing or leading to death was...

Intracranial tuberculous subdural empyema (ITSE) is extremely rare. To our knowledge, only four cases of microbiologically confirmed ITSE have been reported in the English literature to date. Most cases have arisen in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis regardless of trauma. A 46-year-old man presented to the emergency department after a fall. On arrival, he complained of pain in his head, fac...

INTRODUCTION As fractures of the supraorbital region are far less common than midfacial or orbital fractures, a study was initiated to investigate whether fist blows could lead to fractures similar to those often seen in the midface. METHODS A detailed skull model and an impactor resembling a fist were created and a fist blow to the supraorbital region was simulated. A transient finite elemen...

OBJECTIVE To provide information about children with a skull fracture in the Edinburgh area, since head injury is the single most important traumatic cause of death in children over 1 year of age. METHODS During the period January 1983 to December 1989, all children in the Edinburgh area under 13 years of age who sustained a skull fracture were identified. Details of the children who died pri...

This retrospective study is performed on 423 cases of skull farcture who refered to "Loghman-e­Hakim" hospital during a 493 days period (October 1994-March 1995): The fracture types were linear in 85% Depressed in 7%, Basilar in 8% of cases. 71.2% of all cases were male and 28.8% were femal. 72.6% of fracture occured in pediatric age group "Less than 15 years old" and 27.4% in adult group. The ...

BACKGROUND Despite an increasing interest in the treatment of clavicle fractures, this is still a not yet defined area in severely injured patients as most studies exclude these patients. Analyzing fracture type and evaluate accompanying injuries can provide valuable information in an early stage of trauma care. OBJECTIVE To identify prevalence, fracture type and accompanying injuries of clav...

Parneet, Sukhsaihaj, and Imaan were born at 30 weeks gestation via cesarean section and their weights were 1.31, 1.38, and 1.46 Kg, respectively. They suffered from respiratory acidosis, hypoglycemia, respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis, jaundice, gastroesophageal reflex, and anemia. They were discharged from the hospital at 42 days of age. The triplets were vaccinated with DTaP, IPV, Hib, an...

Since CT scans make it possible to demonstrate precise morphological and anatomico pathological findings, small brain lesions are frequently found on CT scans, in spite of the short duration of unconsciousness after head trauma. Thirty six out of approximately 500 cases which received CT examinations within two weeks after head injury were selected and analyzed. In these cases, almost all high ...

The determination of plausibility of an injury arising from a fall leading to head trauma is a great challenge especially in young children. The present review is aimed to discuss important developments in the filed of head trauma cases especially in children. We explored various studies pertaining to head trauma injuries in children by exploring mainly PubMed, Google scholar and some library p...

OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiology of babywalker-related injuries to children treated in a pediatric emergency department despite current prevention efforts, and to investigate the beliefs of parents regarding babywalker use. DESIGN A descriptive study of a consecutive series of patients. SETTING The emergency department of a large, academic children's hospital. PARTICIPANTS Children ...