Introduction: Maxillofacial ballistic trauma is a serious injury that is difficult to manage, with significant complications and after-effects. The authors report their experience in managing this type of trauma in th...
This study has been approved by the local ethics committee and have therefore been performed in accordance with the ethical standards;Data collection and analysis was carried out in accordance with MR004 reference methodology.
Purpose The data concerning long-term follow-up and outcomes of penetrating trauma are poorly detailed in the literature.The main objective of our study was to analyze the hospital and extra-hospital follow-up of pene...
BACKGROUND Firearm-associated injuries(FAIs)are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in children living in the United States.Most victims of such injuries survive,but may experience compromised function...
Terrorist attacks have been on the rise.During the recent terrorist attacks in France,terrorists perpetrated their acts using weapons of war,as well as explosive charges.These two modes of action,when combined,can cre...
Adrenal gland trauma is a rare phenomenon, due to the small size and retroperitoneal location of the organ. The majority of adrenal gland trauma is due to blunt force injury and is only rarely encountered due to the p...
Background:Craniocerebral gunshot injury refers to a wound caused by a bullet passing through or lodged in brain tissue,resulting in the loss of function of a certain area or other fatal damage to the human brain.Cran...
The management of hemodynamically normal patients with retained intra-pericardial foreign body re- mains a matter of conjecture. The available literature supports non-operative management of such innocuous foreign bod...
Occipital neuralgia, while typically idiopathic in presentation, is a common form of posttraumatic headache. It is associated with severe pain in the greater, lesser, and/or third occipital nerves, and often accompani...
Introduction: Despite extensive experience with civilian gunshot fractures or wounds, no consensus exists on a standard protocol to manage these injuries. Many authors recommended immediate debridement, but the optima...
Gunshot wounds to external genitalia are rare either in war field and civilian setting accounting for 2% - 4% of all injuries with often a lesion to the urinary tract. We report a case of external genital injury in a ...