Suicide Using an Air Blow Gun

[Air gun injuries of the brain, a method of suicide characteristic for butchers].

The best treatment can be no treatment: retained retro-orbital air gun pellet following attempted suicide.

1 of 3 DESCRIPTION A 35-year-old man presented after shooting himself in the right orbit with an air rifl e following an attempted suicide. His visual acuity was 6/5 in the right eye and 6/6 in the left. An entry wound was noted on the medial aspect of the upper lid. The anterior segment was otherwise unremarkable. Examination of the posterior segment revealed no signifi cant abnormalities. The...

Pediatric air gun shot injury

Air guns (AGs) use air or another compressed gas to propel a projectile. Different injuries may occur in children due to their body structure, which is less-resistant with thin soft tissue coverage that can be easily penetrated by an AG shot. We present 3 cases of pediatric AG shot injury. The first-case had right lumber deep tissue penetration of AG pallet without internal damage, the second-c...

Evidence for High Nonlinearity in Sandy Sediment Using an Air Gun Source

Air pollution: a smoking gun for cancer

Once considered a taboo topic or stigma, cancer is the number one public health enemy in the world. Once a product of an almost untouchable industry, tobacco is indisputably recognized as a major cause of cancer and a target for anticancer efforts. With the emergence of new economic powers in the world, especially in highly populated countries such as China, air pollution has rapidly emerged as...