Penetrating eye injury caused by a golf tee

Penetrating diaphragmatic injury caused by a pencil

Penetrating injuries caused by a pencil are not commonly reported, although they can lead to serious complications and sequelae. This report describes the case of a 6-year-old girl who accidentally sustained a penetrating injury to the left flank due to a pencil. The intraabdominal, retroperitoneal and thoracic organs were spared but the diaphragm was penetrated. Surgical exploration and repair...

Penetrating Eye Injury

A 38-year-old man presented to a regional Western Australian hospital after being stabbed in his left eye with a knife. Computerized Tomography (CT) revealed a 7 cm knife blade within the globe extending along the skull base. After transfer to a tertiary hospital, a cerebral angiogram was performed, excluding significant cerebral vascular involvement. Through a multidisciplinary approach with t...

Penetrating injury of the eye.

Eye injury from exploding golf balls.

Golf balls with liquid centres are liable to explode if damaged, and thus present a potential hazard to the eye. This injury was described by Duke-Elder (I954) who concluded ". . . Fortunately this hazard has now been removed from golf". In the past 5 years, however, several cases have been reported in the American literature (Johnson and Zimmerman, I 965; Penner, I 966; Slusher, Jaegers, and A...

Serious Penetrating Craniocerebral Injury Caused by a Nail Gun

Penetrating cerebral injuries caused by foreign bodies occur rarely due to the substantial mechanical protection offered by the skull. Throughout most of history, the brain, residing in a "closed box" of bone, has not been vulnerable to external aggression. Recently, we encountered a serious penetrating craniocerebral injury caused by a nail gun. Total excision of the offending nail via emergen...