Hand is extremely exposed to various loads and traumas of everyday tasks and activities, resulting in fist fractures being fairly common injuries. The most common mechanism of injury is a direct blow. This retrospective study analyzed the data on 274 children admitted for hand fractures at Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb in the period from 2006 to 2014. The study included 76 girls (28%) and 198...

Nature has been the major source of demographic shocks until nineteenth century, after which Politics gradually become main factor catastrophic traumas. During first part past war, violence, forced migration, man-made famines, and epidemics unchained by them were responsible for tens millions deaths. They left deep scars in survivors, distorted age structure, altered equilibrium between sexes g...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the study was to analyze the accuracy of interpretation of extremity traumas by emergency physicians (EP) to determine the most difficult areas for interpretation in comparison to official radiology reports of direct X-ray. METHODS Radiologist reports and EP reports of direct X-rays from isolated extremity trauma patients were retrospectively compared from 01.05.2011...

Among stem cells, autologous mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are ideal for transplantation by virtue of limited rejection reactions and marked proliferative ability. This study presents a novel method by which MSCs were harvested from the bone marrow of a patient who presented with severe post-traumatic infection and a non-healing skin defect in the hand, secondary to uncontrolled diabetes mellit...

The study of female inmates by Warren et al. is essential research concerning the characteristics of trauma and the symptoms of trauma associated with full PTSD. This commentary explores their surprising finding that a high number of female inmates who have experienced multiple and severe traumas report that witnessing is traumatic and that, in a high percentage, it is associated with full PTSD...

Hepatic arterial injury secondary to both blunt and penetrating traumas is well documented in the literature by case reports and articles regarding management. Penetrating injuries to the hepatic arteries are more common than injuries from blunt trauma. Hepatic arterial injuries secondary to blunt traumas are often associated with injuries to other vital organs or vascular structures, resulting...

Dental traumas are one of the most frequent facial traumas especially in children. Maxillary incisors are the most frequently involved teeth. Here we present, a report of a child who sustained a crown fracture with lost portion of tooth embedded in her lower lip for 6 months. The fragment was surgically retrieved and successfully reattached to the fractured 21 using acid-etch resin technique. H...