Two hundred and thirty-seven Nigerians with missile head injury were treated at the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan, between July 1964 and January 1970. Among the 165 of these patients who have been followed up for over a year, the incidence of epilepsy has been 11·4%, 18·75%, and 33·3% in a follow-up period ranging between one to two years, two to three years, and three to five years ...

Despite the large number of gunshot wounds treated in civilian and military practice, embolization of missiles to the pulmonary artery is relatively uncommon. In a review of 7,500 medical reports from casualties from the Vietnam Vascular Registry, only 22 patients with known vascular trauma had missile emboli (0.3%), and of those, only 4 (.0005%) were to the pulmonary artery. Causative agents o...

During the recent Gulf war 63 patients with penetrating missile injuries (including 29 Iraqi prisoners of war) underwent operation in a British Army Field Hospital. Their injuries and initial operative management are reported. Fifty-one casualties (81 per cent) suffered an average of nine wounds (range 1-45) due to fragmentation weapons, and 12 casualties sustained bullet wounds. All wounds wer...

Wounds to the limbs are the commonest injuries seen during armed conflict and injury results from the transfer of energy from the missile to the tissues. There are a number of factors that determine the transfer of energy, and thus the extent of wounding. These include the velocity of the missile, its shape and stability, and the tissue through which the missile passes. Many of the wounds invol...

one hundred patients underwent elective cranioplasty for high velocity missile injury of the head during a 30-month-period study and investigation in amiralmomenin hospital affiliated to iran university of medical sciences. deep penetrating wounds were the most frequent injuries seen during this study. three patients presented with massive bone defects and progressive neurological deficit and d...

The most common mechanism of blunt thoracic trauma is an MVC, followed by falls, assaults, and crush injuries. Compressive forces directly injure the thoracic cage and underlying viscera and result in rib fractures and pulmonary contusion. Deceleration produces traction on fixed structures such as the isthmus of the aorta and the carina and results in traumatic aortic and tracheobronchial injur...

Non-missile penetrating brain injuries are rare events in western countries. We report a case with lethal stab injury of the brain and identification of the weapon used in the assault by digital superimposition on CT scans taken at admission of the victim to a hospital. Furthermore, all cases with knife stab wounds of the skull between 1971 and 2000 were analyzed and compared with literature re...