BACKGROUND The modern management of abdominal stab wounds remains controversial and subject to continued reappraisal. In the present study we reviewed patients with abdominal stab wounds to examine and validate a policy of selective non-operative management with serial physical abdominal examination in a busy urban trauma centre with a high incidence of penetrating trauma. METHODS Over a 12-m...

Abstract. Stab protective clothing is used in a wide range of applications, including military and police but also becoming increasingly important for civilian users. A relatively new way manufacturing personal equipment additive manufacturing. This makes it possible to produce types stab protection geometries by applying polymer layers textiles. Such composite structures represent mechanical s...

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traumatic coronary artery-cameral fistulas (tcaf) are rare and may present secondary to penetrating injuries (80%) or iatrogenic traumas. early operative intervention remains the recommended treatment modality for accidental traumatic coronary artery fistulas. we report the case of a 17-year-old man who presented with left anterior descending coronary artery-right ventricle fistula following pe...

conclusions pneumoventricle is rare but it can be established after spinal trauma. by awareness of such possibility, accurate diagnosis by clinical examination and imaging is essential for these types of injuries introduction the presence of air within the intracranial cavity, due to the entry of air secondary to an abnormal communication after a dural tear, is defined as pneumocephalus and int...

A graph G is called (H; k)-vertex stable if G contains a subgraph isomorphic to H ever after removing any k of its vertices. By stab(H; k) we denote the minimum size among the sizes of all (H; k)-vertex stable graphs. In this paper we present a first (non-trivial) general lower bound for stab(H; k) with regard to the order, connectivity and minimum degree of H. This bound is nearly sharp for k ...

Tittsler and Sandholzer (1936) drew attention to the advantages of the macroscopic method for the detection of bacterial motilityA stab-culture is made in semi-solid nutrient agar (0.5 per cent) with the organism under test and motility, if present, is apparent to the naked eye by the type of growth obtained. With nonmotile organisms the growth is restricted to the line of the stab whereas with...