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Penetrating Heart Injury due to Screwdriver Assault
Penetrating heart injuries cause wounds in the cardiac chambers. Most of them are due to gunshot or stabbing by knives. Screwdriver is an uncommon weapon. Authors report a case of stab wound by screwdriver, treated at cardiovascular center in Dakar. This is a 16-year-old boy who experienced physical aggression. He was assaulted with a screwdriver and had stab wound on the anterior wall of the c...
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BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the mortality rate of penetrating cardiac trauma in a large urban hospital. METHODS This was a retrospective study over a period of 5 years and 5 months of all patients admitted alive with a stab or a gunshot cardiac injury. RESULTS There were 310 patients with a stab wound and 63 with a gunshot wound. The overall mortality rate was 19%. T...
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Various self-inflicted foreign bodies have been removed from the lower urinary tract and external male genitalia. In many cases foreign bodies were inserted or applied for autoerotic reasons which are frequently associated with mental health disorders. Here the author reports an unusual case of self insertion of a 6-cm long metal needle at penoscrotal junction of the erect penis for sexual plea...
متن کاملPenetrating injury to the inferior vena cava.
A 21-YEAR-OLD MALE PATIENT was admitted to the emergency department after a gunshot wound entering the right flank. The patient was in shock, with a blood pressure of 80/40 mmHg, 130 bpm heart rate, and a Glasgow Coma Scale of 10. We calculated an Injury Severity Score of 25 and Revised Trauma Score of 6,171. His breath sounds were normal. His initial base deficit was !12.4. No exit wound was v...
متن کاملPenetrating Injury to the Upper Extremity
DESCRIPTION A 16-year-old right-hand-dominant adolescent boy presents to the emergency department with multiple lacerations to the right forearm after falling through a glass table with an outstretched hand. He has pulsatile bleeding from the proximal wound and normal sensorimotor examination of the right hand.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cor et Vasa
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0010-8650,1803-7712
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvasa.2017.01.003