Traumatic hemothorax: Analysis of 108 cases

Endoscopic Sphincteropapillotomy: An Analysis of 108 Cases

Plague Convalescence Period. Analysis of 108 Cases

Hospital, between February and July 1897, no patient, except one who deserted on the twentythird day, was discharged until the temperature had remained normal for at least four days. Those discharged in less than ten days from the hospital had either been kept under observation for some time previous to actual entry of their names in the admission and discharge book, or had had plague outside a...

Modern Management of Traumatic Hemothorax

Hemothorax is defined as a bleeding into pleural cavity. Hemothorax is a frequent manifestation of blunt chest trauma. Some authors suggested a hematocrit value more than 50% for differentiation of a hemothorax from a sanguineous pleural effusion. Hemothorax is also often associated with penetrating chest injury or chest wall blunt chest wall trauma with skeletal injury. Much less common, it ma...

Neonatal tetanus. Analysis of 108 cases using a scoring system.

Analysis of 108 cases of Neonatal Tetanus by using a scoring system (Tjandra et al., 197 4) revealed that 18 patients belonged to Grade I with a mortality rate of 5.6%; 43 belonged to Grade II wi,th a mortality nate of 58.1%; and 47 belonged to Grade lll wioth 91.5% mortality. The differences of mortality bBtween tthe 3 groups are statistically significant. Mortality rate of 1973 was the lowest...

Management and outcomes of traumatic hemothorax in children

BACKGROUND Adult guidelines for the management of traumatic hemothorax are well established; however, there have been no similar studies conducted in the pediatric population. The purpose of our study was to assess the management and outcomes of children with traumatic hemothorax. MATERIALS AND METHODS Following Institutional Review Board approval, we conducted a retrospective cross-sectional...