Two hundred children who had been injured at school and sought hospital treatment were studied. Younger children tended to be brought to the Accident and Emergency Department later after the injuries than the older children, and one in seven of those under 15 years attended alone or without a legally acceptable guardian. Sixteen per cent of the 204 injuries were fractures, of which 70% were to ...

BACKGROUND The fetal laceration is one of the most commonly identified injuries at the caesarean delivery. The incidence in the literature has been reported to be as high as 3%. The management of such injuries has remained a perplexing problem for both the physician and the parents. MATERIALS AND METHODS We present a case of a newborn who accidentally sustained laceration over the face during...

purpose: to determine factors that affect and predict final visual acuity, retinal attachment, and ocular survival after open-globe injuries. methods: one-hundred sixteen eyes with open globe injuries were evaluated longitudinally from september 2001to february 2004. age, sex, involved eye, best corrected visual acuity (bcva), afferent pupillary defect (apd), size and location of laceration, ca...

Severe vaginal lacerations and hematomas can be serious, life-threatening complications of vaginal delivery. The management is usually limited to suturing and vaginal packing with gauze. After a vaginal delivery vaginal tissues can be edematous, friable and very difficult to suture. Vaginal balloon tamponade can be a solution in difficult cases of intractable vaginal hemorrhage or occult vagina...