OBJECTIVE To determine the outcome and devise a protocol for emergency management of cut injuries in Flexor Zone 5 of hands. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn Unit, Mayo Hospital, KEMU, Lahore, Pakistan, from January 2009 to March 2013. METHODOLOGY All patients above 12 years of age with single sharp cut injuries in Flexor Z...

OBJECTIVE To study the demographics and treatment outcome of penetrating neck injuries presenting to a major trauma centre in order to develop a treatment protocol. DESIGN A case review. SETTING A trauma centre at a tertiary care institution. PATIENTS One hundred and thirty consecutive patients who had 134 neck wounds penetrating the platysma and presented to the trauma service between 19...

Optic nerve injuries are classically divided into direct and indirect injuries. Direct injuries are open injuries where an external object penetrates the tissues to impact the optic nerve. Indirect optic nerve injuries occur when the force of collision is imparted into the skull and this energy is absorbed by the optic nerve. The prognostic value in knowing that an injury was direct or indirect...

reported are a total of 81 microsurgical operations for cranial nerve root decompression comprising of 66 trigeminal, 10 facial, one vestibular, one vagus and three accessory nerve dysfunction syndromes from 1983 to 1990. almost all cases of trigeminal neuralgia (tng) secondary to vascular (59 cases) and minute mass (10 cases) compression, and those with hemifacial spasm (hfs) (nine out of 10 c...