this is an observational case series study on penetrating trauma admissions in three teaching hospitals in tehran from 1996 to 1997. in order to describe the epidemiology and determine the ways of improving treatment of penetrating injuries, we selected 410 patients with penetrating injuries and injury severity scores (iss) of more than 7 (the maximum iss is 75) out of 3580 trauma patients, hos...

The objective of this presentation is to discuss certain biomechanical aspects of head injuries due to blunt and penetrating impacts. Emphasis is given to fundamental data leading to injury criteria used in the United States (US) regulations for motor vehicle safety. Full-scale and component tests done under US Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) are described. In addition, results p...

Penetrating injury to the head is considered a form of severe traumatic brain injury. Although uncommon, most neurosurgical centres would have experienced treating patients with such an injury. Despite the presence of well written guidelines for managing these cases, surgical treatment requires an individualized approach tailored to the situation at hand. We describe a collection of three cases...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to describe pelvic fractures and their associated injuries in service members who either died of wounds or were killed in action during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom and define any differences in associated injuries between penetrating versus blunt injury to the pelvis. METHODS A review of all service members who sustained a pe...

Transorbital intracranial penetrating injury is an uncommon mechanism of head injury. These injuries can be occult during the initial clinical presentation. Certain patients develop an intracranial cerebral infection. Herein, we report a 5-year-old child with an occult transorbital intracranial penetrating injury caused by a pen. A retained pen tip was found at the superior orbital roof and was...

Background: Penetrating head injuries (PHI) caused by sharp objects are associated with a high risk of potentially life-threatening complications and estimated to account for approximately 0.4% all injuries. Since not many cases PHI screwdriver have been described in the literature, treatment these patients is quite controversial non-standardized. Therefore, aim this paper was present our exper...