Smoking disease: a self-inflicted injury.

Pneumocephalus Following Self-Inflicted Penetrating Brain Injury

Objective Pneumocephalus is a rare complication that often occurs after traumatic skull base injury, leading to morbidity and mortality. Material and Method We present the case of a 42-year-old healthy man who injured himself when he stuck a metal stick into his left nasal cavity to relieve prolonged nasal obstruction. Immediate cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea and subsequent meningitis and pne...

Self-inflicted orbitocranial injury with a plastic ballpoint pen.

Unusual Self Inflicted Injury in a Patient with SHAFT Syndrome

A 24-year-old man was admitted with pain and swelling in the left forearm. He admitted introducing several long screws in his forearm, manually one by one, the previous night. The shafts of the screws were buried deep into the muscles of the forearm though their heads were still visible from the surface. This patient has been found to exhibit features of SHAFT syndrome on numerous occasions in ...

Self-inflicted nail-gun injury with intracranial and intracardiac nails

Nail-gun injury is commonly encountered in the emergency department. The severity of the injury depends on the specific injuries to organs and vascular structures. Computed tomography (CT) is the ideal imaging test of choice, as it can identify the more critical injuries that require immediate intervention. We present a case of self-inflicted nail-gun injury with intracranial and intracardiac n...

An unusual self-inflicted injury of the breast.

BSP retention at 25 min was 20% (normal 15 %) and 13 % at 45 min (normal < 5%). Her appetite returned with a 7 kg gain in weight. Her abdomen remained distended and her liver easily palpable. Ten months after the initial presentation she was clinically unchanged and still taking occasional analgesics. Her haemoglobin was 12 g/100 ml, alkaline phosphatase 9 King-Armstrong u, negative occult bloo...