A 38-year-old man presented to a regional Western Australian hospital after being stabbed in his left eye with a knife. Computerized Tomography (CT) revealed a 7 cm knife blade within the globe extending along the skull base. After transfer to a tertiary hospital, a cerebral angiogram was performed, excluding significant cerebral vascular involvement. Through a multidisciplinary approach with t...

A 20-year-old motorcycle messenger crashed into a truck transporting structural pipes. Accidentally a 3 cm diameter pipe penetrated his right inferior orbit and soft tissue below the left posterior lateral neck. When he arrived at the emergency room, there was a blunt wound with active bleeding in his right zygoma and haematoma in his left neck. On CT the metallic pipe passed through the inferi...

A comprehensive review of data has not yet been provided as penetrating injury to the buttock is not a common condition accounting for 2-3% of all penetrating injuries. The aim of the study is to provide the as yet lacking analytical review of the literature on penetrating trauma to the buttock, with appraisal of characteristics, features, outcomes, and patterns of major injuries. Based on thes...

Penetrating cranial injury by mechanisms other than gunshots are exceedingly rare, and so strategies and guidelines for the management of PBI are largely informed by data from higher-velocity penetrating injuries. Here, we present a case of penetrating brain injury by the low-velocity mechanism of a harpoon from an underwater fishing speargun in an attempted suicide by a 56-year-old Caucasian m...

Three prickles about 2 mm. long were embedded in and penetrating the full thickness of the cornea. They were stiff, fine, and like needle-tips; their bases were flush with the corneal epithelium, and the shafts traversed the full corneal thickness with the pointed end protruding I mm. into the anterior chamber. The positions of two of the prickles are visible in Fig. I, the third being hidden u...

A case of chainsaw injury to the neck is described. Previous reports in the English language are exceedingly rare. A brief discussion of safety features on chain saws is followed by a review of selective vs. mandatory surgical exploration in penetrating neck trauma, including the role of ancillary diagnostic tests.

BACKGROUND Penetrating cardiac injuries in Europe have been poorly studied. We present a 10-year outcome for patients with penetrating heart injuries at Oslo University Hospital. METHODS Data from 01.01.2001 until 31.12.2010 was collected from the Oslo University Hospital Trauma Registry and from the patients' records. RESULTS Thirty-one patients were admitted with a penetrating cardiac inj...

BACKGROUND Patients with penetrating injuries are known to have worse outcomes than those with blunt trauma. We hypothesize that within each injury mechanism there should be no outcome difference between insured and uninsured patients. METHODS The National Trauma Data Bank version 7 was analyzed. Patients aged 65 years and older and burn patients were excluded. The insurance status was catego...

The purpose of this study was to assess the specific indications, benefits and risks associated with cervical spine stabilization during pre-hospital care of penetrating neck injuries. We retrospectively reviewed hospital charts and autopsy reports of 44 military casualties in Israel with a penetrating neck injury during a period of 4.5 years. A review of the literature was also carried out. In...