Introduction: Cranial trauma is a serious medico-surgical pathology that hinders the vital and functional prognosis. The Rotterdam computed tomography (CT) score refined features of Marshall score. This was designed to categorize traumatic brain injury (TBI) type severity in adults. aim our research evaluate association between CT scores patients after cranial traumatism terms survival. Materia...

Born a little time after the death of his sister, our patient, Antoine, 13 years old, was suffering from severe obsessional compulsive disorders, which needed care in the hospital and adapted treatment. We tried to know if what we were led to observe by this adolescent could be explained by works and thoughts around the notion of substitute child. Building our thought on various theoretical app...

PURPOSE To describe epidemiological findings of ocular trauma in childhood in an emergency unit. METHODS A retrospective study was carried out including patients under 16 years old who were treated for ocular trauma at the emergency unit of the Federal University of São Paulo from September 2001 to September 2004. Age, sex, involved eye, place, circumstance and mechanism of injury, initial vi...

Myiasis is the term used to describe infestations, both obligatory and accidental, in vertebrate animals and humans by dipteral larvae. The oral cavity is rarely affected by this infestation and the circumstances which can lead to oral myiasis include persistent mouth opening together with poor hygiene, or facial traumatism. We present a case of oral myiasis by larvae of Lucilia sericata, a spe...