A 16 year old girl had been swimming in the River Trent where she sustained a cut to her forehead after diving in. Within two days there was diffuse swelling around her eyes and forehead which had appeared to settle over the course of the week. However, at 10 days after injury a forehead lump had developed that continued to increase in size over a 14 day period while observed as an accident and...

Laceration of the lung was found in 4-4% of cases of chest injury caused by blunt trauma admitted to two thoracic centres. Criteria for accurate diagnosis are presented. It is suggested that thoracotomy should be considered and carried out as soon as possible when the diagnosis is made. It was found that cases treated with early thoracotomy did not require any pulmonary resection. In others, la...

Pseudoaneurysms occur secondary to partial disruption of the arterial wall. They are a commonly described complication of arterial injury, with penetrating injury and iatrogenic arterial catheterization being the most common etiologies in children. Many present weeks to months after the injury, and the initial vascular injury is often missed. The complications of pseudoaneurysm, which include t...

CROTHERS,1 in 1923, called our attention to the fact that dystocia associated with breech presentation is not infrequently the cause of laceration of the spinal cord. Several other observers2 since then have corroborated this statement, which in truth is not new, for in 1870 Parrot3 published " Un note sur un cas de rupture de la moelle chez un nouveau-ne par suit de manceuvres pendant l'accouc...

Transrectal evisceration caused by colorectal injury is an unusual entity. This pathology is more frequent in elderly patients and it is usually produced spontaneously. Rectal prolapse is the principal predisposing factor. An 81-year-old woman was taken to the hospital presenting exit of intestinal loops through the anus. After first reanimation measures, an urgent surgery was indicated. We obs...