A Case of Violent Suicide Attempt in a Context of Myxedema Psychosis following Radioiodine Treatment in a Patient with Graves’ Disease by Louise Todorov, Amel Ait Boudaoud, Rachel Pascal de Raykeer, Alina Radu, Khadija Lahlou-Laforêt, Frédéric Limosin, Cédric Lemogne, Sébastien Czernichow

“…We report a case of suicide attempt by self-stabbing in a 43-year-old woman without past psychiatric history, four months after radioiodine therapy for Graves’ disease. …”
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Ketamine Use for Successful Resolution of Post-ERCP Acute Pancreatitis Abdominal Pain by Suneel M. Agerwala, Divya Sundarapandiyan, Garret Weber

“…Shortly after ERCP, the patient reported severe stabbing epigastric pain. She exhibited voluntary guarding and tenderness without distension. …”
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Saphenovenous Graft Aneurysm: A Rare Complication of CABG by James Thomas Connell

“…We present the case of a 48-year-old male with a cardiovascular risk profile hallmarked by diabetes mellitus, end stage renal failure, recalcitrant hyperlipidaemia, and IHD previously treated with CABG. 11 years following his CABG, he was retrieved from remote Australia to a tertiary cardiology centre with stabbing chest pain. Serial cardiac enzymes were negative. …”
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Referred Trigeminal Facial Pain from Occipital Neuralgia Occurring Much Earlier than Occipital Neuralgia by Byung-chul Son

“…We report a very rare case in which a patient believed to have auriculotemporal neuralgia due to the repeated recurrence of paroxysmal stabbing pain in the preauricular temporal region for four years developed occipital neuralgia, which finally improved with decompression of the greater occipital nerve (GON). …”
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Rare Case of Cocaine-Induced Aortic Aneurysm: A Near Dissection Event by Ranju Kunwor, AnnMarie Canelas

“…The sudden onset of severe, sharp, stabbing chest or back pain is suggestive of aortic dissection. …”
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Retsmedicinske findestedsundersøgelser by Peter Mygind Leth, Stine Hovvang, Asser Hedegård Thomsen

“…Blood stains can arise from natural causes. Suicide by stabbing or shooting may give rise to a suspicious scene, as may deaths during autoerotic procedures and deaths due to hypothermia. …”
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Diaphragmatic Injuries in Patients with Penetrating Thoracoabdominal Injuries without Shock or Acute Abdomen at Admission by Alejandro González-Muñoz, Laura Otálora González, María Paula Fontecha Pinzón, Angela Cristina Ríos Cadavid, Cristina Judith Padilla Herrera, Danny Michell Conde Monroy, José Gabriel Rodríguez-Narváez, David Rene Rodriguez Lima

“…Out of these, 268 (94.3%) patients experienced stabbing as the mechanism of injury. The prevalence of diaphragmatic injuries diagnosed during surgical exploration was 15.1% (43 patients). …”
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Penetrating Heart Injury due to Screwdriver Assault by P. A. Dieng, M. S. Diop, A. G. Ciss, P. S. Ba, S. Diatta, M. Gaye, M. L. Fall, A. Ndiaye, M. Ndiaye

“…Most of them are due to gunshot or stabbing by knives. Screwdriver is an uncommon weapon. …”
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CORRELATIONS OF GIVING DESINFECTION (ALCOHOL SWAB) WHEN GIVING INTRAVEIN INJECTION WITH PHLEBITIS by Rindayati Rindayanti

“…Phlebitis is characterized by the presence of a red and warm area around the area of stabbing or along the vein. This study aims to determine the effect of disinfection (alcohol swab) on intravenous bolus injection with phlebitis. …”
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Effect of Scalp-acupuncture Treatment on Language Reorganization in Poststroke Aphasia：A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy by LIN Bingbing, NI Jinglei, XIONG Xiao, HUANG Yunshi, HUANG Jia

“…The control group received conventional speech rehabilitation therapy （speech training，language imitation，figure-word matching，numerical reading/writing/calculating and social communication skills training，etc. ），medication and health education; the observation group received scalp acupuncture on the basis of the control group，selecting the language function area （2/5 below the parietal anterior temporal diagonal line and the anterior temporal line），and then stabbing it either flatly or obliquely，and then retained for 30 minutes post-needling sensation （deqi），and the speech and language treatment was carried out by the speech rehabilitation therapist in the process. …”
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Potential Spectrum of Accompanied Penetrating Abdominal Intraperitoneal Injuries with Bowel Evisceration: Surprises Awaiting the Trauma Surgeon in Resource Limited Settings by Ahmed Shabhay, Zarina Shabhay, Kondo Chilonga, Theresia Mwakyembe, David Msuya, Fabian Massaga, Samwel Chugulu

“…Typically such injuries arise from gunshot wounds or stab wounds. With increase in crime rates and motor traffic accidents in urban areas, the trauma surgeon in civilian urban centers faces spectrum of injuries similar to his colleague in war torn areas. …”
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Bifurcating Method for Subcutaneous Indwelling of Nonabsorbable Threads by Makoto Akahori, MD, Shigeki Sakai, MD, PhD, Kazuo Kishi, MD, PhD

“…The needles penetrated from the stab incision through the depths to separate sites farther away from each other. …”
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EVALUATION OF ORAL BEHAVIOR IN A GROUP OF PATIENTS WITH SELF-REPORTED SLEEP BRUXISM by Steliana Gabriela Buștiuc, Gheorghe Raftu, Raluca Briceag, Elena Claudia Sin, Mihaela Macrina Manolache, Cristina Nucă, Salim Camer, Aureliana Caraiane

“…The first version of the Standardised Tool for the Assessment of Bruxism (STAB) was published in 2024. The oral behaviour checklist (OBC) is included in the STAB and is a self-assessment tool designed to assess the frequency of various oral behaviours during the day or night. …”
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Traumatic Diaphragmatic Hernia. A Case Report by Daniel Olivera Fajardo, Jorge Luis Estepa Pérez, Tahiluma Santana Pedraza, Moisés Carillo Pérez

“…For these reasons, we present the case of a patient operated on due to a stab wound to the chest who was subsequently diagnosed with a traumatic diaphragmatic hernia on the left side of the chest. …”
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Delayed Tamponade after Traumatic Wound with Left Ventricular Compression by Fahad Almehmadi, Mark Chandy, Kim A. Connelly, Jeremy Edwards

“…We present a case report of a 23-year-old male who was brought to emergency after multiple stab wounds to the chest. After resuscitation and repair of laceration of right internal mammary artery and right ventricle, he was discharged but later returned with shortness of breath. …”
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Sandwiching textiles with FDM Printing by Mahmut-Sami Özev, Andrea

“…Especially safety-related applications, e.g. stab-resistant textile/polymer composites, need to show reliable adhesion between both components to serve their purpose. …”
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Factors Associated with Serious Injuries among Adolescents in Ghana: Findings from 2012 Global School Health Survey by Martin Ackah, Mohammed Gazali Salifu, Hosea Boakye

“…The findings of the study established a high prevalence of SI among adolescents in Ghana, with cut/stab wound and broken/dislocated bone being the most reported type of injuries. …”
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Analysis of emergency centre recidivism for interpersonal violence in a district-level hospital in Cape Town, South Africa by J J Horn, L Bush, D J van Hoving

“…Cases were limited to the inclusion of mechanisms of injury attributable to stab wounds, blunt assault, firearm injury and gender-based violence. …”
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The death of Cleopatra by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…Antony died a slow death after an initially unsuccessful suicide attempt by way of a stab wound to the abdomen. It is argued that Cleopatra (and her two servants) probably committed suicide through poisoning, rather than the bite of an asp (viper) as is popularly believed. …”
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The Role of RaxST, a Prokaryotic Sulfotransferase, and RaxABC, a Putative Type I Secretion System, in Activation of the Rice XA21-Mediated Immune Response by Pamela C. Ronald

“…The raxST gene resides in the same operon (raxSTAB) as components of a predicted type I secretion and processing system (RaxA and RaxB). …”
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