Penetrating injuries account for 10% to 20% of all pediatric trauma admissions at most centers. Gunshot wounds are responsible for the overwhelming majority of penetrating traumatic injuries and have a significantly higher mortality rate than do blunt injury mechanisms. The management of penetrating injuries can be quite challenging and often requires rapid assessment and intervention. Specific...

The aim of this study was to present the use of retroauricular full-thickness skin grafts in vestibuloplasty surgeries for dental implant rehabilitation in vascularized fibula grafts. Two patients underwent mandibular reconstruction with vascularized fibula grafts due to mandibular gunshot injuries. Inadequate sulcus gaps secondary to mandibular soft tissue deficiencies were managed by full-thi...

Abstract A systematic review of the literature was carried out using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) method to investigate frequency military thoracic gunshot wounds (GSWs) deaths in combat theatres since World War Two (WW2). An electronic database search Science, Scopus, Science Direct, PubMed Microsoft Academic conducted keywords ‘combat, casualties...

Traditionally, mandatory exploration was the rule for managing penetrating abdominal trauma, but this has begun to change in the recent era. The change first affected stab injuries, in which the conservative approach in appropriate cases has gained wide spread acceptance. Relatively recently, the management of gunshot injuries to the abdomen has been similarly affected, and several reports appe...

Penetrating injuries to the abdominal aorta are highly lethal despite increasing numbers of reports of successful treatment. A case of survival after a 0,25-calibre gunshot wound of the abdominal aorta is presented. The patient, a young male, also had associated injuries to the liver, stomach and jejunum. He was managed by vigorous resuscitation, emergency laparotomy, aortic debridement and end...

Among the main causes of TBI, we have traffic accidents, sports, falls, work-related accidents, aggressions, including gunshot wounds, blast injuries and other weapons. Thanks to the improvement in the development of devices to protect the occupants of vehicles and some other preventive measures, a reduction in the rate of mortality associated with TBI has been achieved [2,3], especially in the...