Penetrating Rectal Wound in Domestic Injury

Traumatic brain injury with carotid canal penetrating wound.

Patient male, victim of aggression, comatose, with a screwdriver in his ear canal (Figure 1). CT scan showed a route of the screwdriver through the temporal petrous portion, through the internal carotid artery (ICA) course and a subdural hematoma (Figure 2). We performed hematoma evacuation, with subsequently intracranial and cervical ICA temporary clipping. We removed the screwdriver without b...

A Penetrating Stab Wound of the Perianal Area Causing a Combined Rectal and Bladder Injury: One Case Report

Although the management of either isolated rectal or bladder injury is no more controversial, their combined effect and their optimal management has been seldom reported in the English literature. From a case report of a 45-year-old male who was found to have a combined bladder and rectal injury secondary to a stab wound of the perianal area, the authors develop a diagnostic and therapeutic alg...

A penetrating orbitocranial stab wound.

An unusual case of intracranial penetration of a bread knife through the orbit is described. Despite the proximity of the blade to the internal carotids, the optic nerves and chiasm, and the pituitary the patient survived with only a minimal field defect affecting the eye opposite to the entry site; otherwise no neurological or endocrine deficit was evident.

A case of penetrating orbitocranial injury

The case is a 2-year-old previously healthy girl with coincidental penetrating eye and brain injury. A metal rod was inserted into the skull through the upper border of the right globe. After admission and diagnostic and surgical approaches, the rod was removed under general anesthesia, and no brain hematoma or ocular and significant periocular injuries were detected. No neurologic and ophthalm...

Rectal penetrating injuries from blast trauma.