Purpose: To study the respective contributions and correlations of autopsy PMCT in fatal ballistic injuries. Methods: A single-center retrospective descriptive was carried out over a 10-years period (2008–2017) that included cases injuries had undergone unenhanced followed by autopsy. In addition to demographics, main data collected independently at were number injuries, their trajectory, dista...

Intentional and unintentional injuries were reported to be the second leading cause of Disability Adjusted Life Years in South Africa in 2000. We present household experiences of such injuries in 5 impoverished housing settlements in Johannesburg, Gauteng Province. Data for this study were extracted from the database of the Health, Environment and Development (HEAD) project. The incidence of re...

The morbidity, mortality, and economic cost attributable to handgun violence are staggering. Of the 192 million firearms in the United States, only one third are handguns. Yet, it is estimated that two-thirds of the more than one million Americans killed with a firearm in the past 30 years were killed with a handgun. The risk of death from homicide is threefold higher in homes where a firearm i...

OBJECTIVE To establish the pattern and results of interventions in patients with abdominal injuries requiring admission. DESIGN A descriptive, prospective, hospital-based study involving observation of patients from admission to final outcome of management as either discharged or deceased. SETTING Kenyatta National Hospital, a tertiary teaching and referral hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, from ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the incidence and circumstances of nonfatal firearm-related injuries among children and adolescents treated in US emergency departments. DESIGN Data were obtained from the Firearm Injury Surveillance Study, 1993-1997; data were collected through medical record review at hospitals participating in the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System. SETTING The hospitals...

This paper examines an approach for integrating 3D structural reasoning, using computer models of the human anatomy, with diagnostic reasoning based on Bayesian networks in order to probabilistically predict injuries to anatomic structures from gunshot wounds. An interactive 3D graphical system has been created which allows the user to visualize different bullet path hypotheses and computes the...

Intraorbital foreign body (IOFB) has been a rare phenomenon in the cases of gunshot wounds and always represents a dilemma in medical management. In Sabah, this scenario is becoming common as there is still certain population in the interiors who owns self made guns for hunting. They either present with self inflicted gunshot injuries or after being mistakenly shot while hunting. There are very...

Penetrating injuries to the upper cervical spine resulting from gunshots are rare in South Korea due to restrictions of gun use. Moreover, gunshot wounds to the upper cervical spine without neurological deficits occur infrequently because of the anatomic location and surrounding essential structures. We present an uncommon case involving the surgical removal of a bullet located in the anterior ...

Doctors and nurses treating patients who have blast or gunshot injuries should remember that in nearly all cases there will be forensic or medicolegal consequences and that, although patient care is of prime importance, they have certain duties to record information with these consequences in mind. Such information may be required in subsequent legal prosecution or to help the victims to obtain...