A 61-year-old woman with no relevant medical history attended the emergency department with a 3-day history of epigastric pain and fever, and reports of fish bone ingestion 6 days earlier. No signs of peritoneal irritation were found during abdominal examination. The patient underwent an abdominal computed tomography scan, which revealed a gastric wall thickening with a radiodense linear foreig...

background penetrating and impalement injuries of the hand and fingers are one of the commonest presentations at the hospital’s emergency rooms. this study assessed the characteristics of patients who suffered foreign body injuries to the hands and documented the pattern of diagnosis and management at a specialist plastic surgical facility. methods the study was conducted at the department of p...

An 82-year-old man presented with signs and symptoms that were suggestive of acute cholecystitis. He underwent a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. During the intervention, a wooden foreign body was removed from the infiltrated omentum, probably after it had perforated the gastric antrum. The gastric perforation had led to a secondary infection of the gallbladder. The presumed gastric perforation wa...

BACKGROUND Penetrating and impalement injuries of the hand and fingers are one of the commonest presentations at the hospital’s emergency rooms. This study assessed the characteristics of patients who suffered foreign body injuries to the hands and documented the pattern of diagnosis and management at a specialist plastic surgical facility. METHODS The study was conducted at the Department o...

This atypical case report describes the accidental lodgment of wooden piece (3.5 cm long) in the left infra-orbital region during trauma 2 years back. Primary wound care was provided and laceration was sutured at a primary health care centre but, the wooden piece present there was missed both in clinical as well as radiographic examination. Chronic pain and a draining sinus associated with an u...

Objective: The intraocular foreign bodies (IOFBs) belong to the special ocular trauma. Diagnostic values (ultrasonography, CT/computed tomography and MRI/magnetic resonance imaging) of different imaging technologies for IOFBs in rabbit vitreous body were evaluated for clinical diagnosis. Methods: A total of 240 healthy rabbits were involved, 192 receiving the wooden IOFBs (f = 0.2 mm; different...

Tetanus is defined by the acute onset of hypertonia or by painful muscular contractions (usually of the muscles of the jaw and neck) and generalized muscle spasms without other apparent medical cause[1]. It is a form of spastic paralysis mediated by the neurotoxin “tetanospasmin” released by the Clostridium tetani bacteria germinating in relatively anaerobic wounds or ulcers, especially after c...

Intraocular or orbital foreign bodies when small due to trivial trauma often go unnoticed missed during examination especially a wooden body. They can present as non-healing wounds and discharging fistulas with signs of chronic inflammation, cellulitis, body granuloma ocular complications such corneal scars, traumatic cataract, hyphema, glaucoma, retinal tear detachment. This case report highli...