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Stab wounds in children

Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 1983
The Pediatric Surgical Service of Harlem Hospital Center admitted 75 children, 16-years-old and younger, with stab wounds since 1969. Rapid resuscitation and triage of children with major injuries directly to the operating room achieved 100% survival. Review of the circumstance of injury revealed that 75% of the stab wounds were inflicted by children ...
Rajinder P. Gandhi, Maria Niemirska, Barbara Barlow   +2 more
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Stab Wounds to the Temporal Fossa

Neurosurgery, 1988
Abstract Stab wounds to the temporal fossa appear as a characteristic clinical entity. Patients admitted with stab wounds to the head during the period 1970 to 1986 were reviewed retrospectively. Of these, 10 met the criteria of having suffered a stab wound that penetrated the skull and dura mater of the temporal fossa.
J C de Villiers, Charles S. Haworth
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Stab wounds at the craniocervical junction

Neurosurgery, 1985
Abstract Between 1976 and 1984, 11 patients with stab wounds at the craniocervical junction were seen in the Department of Neurosurgery at Groote Schuur Hospital. The injury usually occurred in males, and the left side was predominantly involved.
J. C. De Villiers, J. C. De Villiers, A R Grant   +2 more
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Suicidal Stab Wounds of the Throat [PDF]

Medicine, Science and the Law, 1991
Suicide by stabbing one's throat remains very rare and very few cases have been reported in the forensic literature. In such cases, the important distinction is between suicide and homicide. The direction of stab wounds, their depth, site and number have particular importance in helping to recognize suicide.
Bernard Marc, F. Paraire, Michel Durigon, A. Chadly   +3 more
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Pneumopericardium following stab wound

Emergency Medicine Journal, 2009
A 42-year-old man was transferred from a psychiatric hospital with thoracic stab wounds after a suicide attempt (fig 1A). Due to patient stability, we performed an emergency computed tomography (CT), revealing the presence of pneumopericardium (fig 1B). The patient was …
G Koulaxouzidis, K Pottaris, M. Konstantinou, G. Chamalakis, I Panagiotou, T. Sakellaridis   +5 more
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The dynamics of stab wounds

Forensic Science, 1975
Knife stabbing is a relatively frequent cause of both serious wounding and homicide in Britain. It arises in two main situations, firstly in youthful gang fights, football hooliganism etc., where the stabbings are not often fatal; secondly, in domestic disputes between husband and wife, where death is often the final consequence.
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ASYMPTOMATIC STAB WOUNDS OF THE CHEST

The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, 1994
In a prospective study of 4,106 consecutive cases of initially asymptomatic stab wounds of the chest, 88% were successfully treated as outpatients after negative findings on a repeat chest x-ray film 6 hours after presentation, 12% of patients required tube thoracostomy for delayed pneumothoraces of hemothoraces, 0.2% required thoracotomy for delayed ...
Jonathan Wasserberger, Gary J. Ordog, William C. Shoemaker, Subramanium Balasubramanium   +3 more
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Stab wounds of the innominate artery

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 1996
Innominate artery stab wounds are rarely encountered, and the optimal management of this injury is different from that of blunt innominate injury in that permanent bypass shunting should not be necessary.The records of 19 patients with stab wounds of the innominate artery who were treated by our department from January 1982 to June 1995 were reviewed ...
James O. Fulton, Ulrich O. von Oppell, Mark de Groot   +2 more
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Gunshot and stab wounds in France: descriptive study from a national trauma registry

European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, 2021
Chloé Descamps, S. Hamada, J. Hanouz, Fanny Vardon-Bounes, Arthur James, D. Garrigue, P. Abback, M. Cardinale, G. Dubreuil, Jeanne Chatelon, F. Cook, A. Neuschwander, Nathalie de Garambé, S. Ausset, M. Boutonnet, Sylvain Eric Anne Anatole Tobias Julien Romain Elisabeth T Ausset Meaudre-Desgouttes Godier Harrois Gauss Pot, S. Ausset, E. Meaudre-Desgouttes, A. Godier, A. Harrois, T. Gauss, J. Pottecher, Romain Pirrachio, E. Gaertner, T. Geeraerts   +24 more
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Selective nonoperative management of anterior abdominal stab wounds: 1992-2008.

Journal of Trauma, 2011
BACKGROUND The use of selective nonoperative management for anterior abdominal stab wounds has evolved into a readily accepted practice. Multiple reports have shown this strategy to be both safe and effective.
Timothy P Plackett, Jonathan Fleurat, B. Putty, D. Demetriades, D. Plurad   +4 more
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