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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Camel Bite Associated with Depressed Skull Fracture with Rapidly Spreading Subgaleal Cellulitis by Shaymaa Al-Umran, Ahmad Abdulfattah, Faisal Alabbas, Hosam Al-Jehani

“…All the wounds were dry and the skin around them was healthy looking with no subcutaneous collections. …”
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Chambres en souffrance : révéler la parole des artistes et des femmes victimes de violences à travers l’espace intime by Adélie Le Guen

“…Explaining women and their involved and complex wounds was the primary aim of artists who wished to examine this intimate setting and the psychoanalytical and political expressions that it expressed. …”
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The impact of gunshot injuries on the shoulder and proximity to the carotid artery by Hossein Kamyab, Nayereh Bahrami, Roohangiz Shirvani, Mahla Qomi

“…This underscores the importance of addressing gunshot injuries within the context of urban medicine, as well as considering revisions to regulatory guidelines.Case Presentation: This report describes the treatment complexities of a patient with gunshot wounds impacting critical structures, specifically the brachial plexus and carotid artery. …”
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Necrotizing Fasciitis Resulting from Human Bites: A Report of Two Cases of Disease Caused by Group A Streptococci by Christopher A Sikora, Jack Spielman, Kerry MacDonald, Gregory J Tyrrell, John M Embil

“…Necrotizing fasciitis is a serious and potentially life-threatening condition. Although bite wounds are common, they are not frequently reported as a cause of necrotizing fasciitis. …”
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Plastic Surgery: Under the Skin, Suture, Destructive Plasticity and Post-Cinematic Ontologies by Greg Hainge

“…Analysing Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin (2013), this article provides an overview of the importation of suture theory from psychoanalysis into film theory and Žižek’s revisiting of this theory, then bringing about a rapprochement between the concepts of suture and Malabou’s destructive plasticity, as expounded in her work The New Wounded. The forms of wounded subjectivity we find there are unable to stitch themselves into the illusory narratives needed to enable them to access a fixed sense of individual or shared identity and enclose them in a subjectivity separated off from all else around. …”
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Dynamic Simulation Analysis of the Antiswing Device for Ship-Mounted Batch Transfer Hanging Basket by Jianli Wang, Haolin Li, Shenghai Wang, Haiquan Chen, Yuqing Sun

“…When the rescue vessels use the hanging basket to transfer the wounded at sea, under the action of waves, the ship causes the hanging basket to swing significantly. …”
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Empowering First Aiders Through Innovative Instructor Resources

“…Participants at the conference also got to try some of these activities with props that simulated wounds and responded favorably to the fresh resources.…”
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Thoracoabdominal injury with evisceration from a chainsaw assault: a case report by Babatunde Abayomi Salami, Babatunde Adeteru Ayoade, El-Zaki Abdullahi Shomoye, Chigbundu Collins Nwokoro

“…The usual cause of penetrating thoracoabdominal injuries with evisceration are stab wounds with knives and other sharp weapons used during fights and conflicts. …”
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“In Honor, as in Limb, Unmarred”: Obsession with the “Whole” Body in Herman Melville’s Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Vanessa Meikle Schulman

“…Reading Battle-Pieces through the lens of disability studies makes visible the author’s conflicted responses to wounded bodies. Melville’s obsession with wholeness and healing was part of a larger national obsession—that of mending the rift between North and South by tending to the physical wounds of individual veterans—a historico-medical context that Melville scholars have largely ignored. …”
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Preventing Ischial Pressure Ulcers: II. Biomechanics by Hilton M. Kaplan, Lucinda L. Baker, Rahman Davoodi, Nga Ting Wong, Gerald E. Loeb

“…Background: Pressure ulcers (PUs) are common and debilitating wounds that arise when immobilized patients cannot shift their weight. …”
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Evolution of Skin during Rehabilitation for Elephantiasis Using Intensive Treatment by Henrique Jose Pereira de Godoy, Ricardo Budtinger Filho, Maria de Fatima Guerreiro Godoy, José Maria Pereira de Godoy

“…What caught the attention during therapy were the open wounds resulting from fragmentation of the plaque as the edema reduced; the plaque was about 0.5 cm thick. …”
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The Management of Open Pelvic Fractures: A Report of 2 Cases by Byungchul Yu, Giljae Lee, Min A Lee, Kangkook Choi, Jihun Gwak, Youngeun Park, Yong-Cheol Yoon, Jungnam Lee

“…We report two cases of unstable open pelvic fractures with perineal wounds that were managed successfully.…”
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Clinical Manifestation, Dermoscopy, and Scanning Electron Microscopy in Two Cases of Contagious Ecthyma (Orf Nodule) by Ana Laura Rosifini Alves Rezende, Fred Bernardes Filho, Natália Aparecida de Paula, Loan Towersey, Roderick Hay, Marco Andrey Cipriani Frade

“…Here, we report the clinical manifestation, dermoscopy, and scanning electron microscopy in two women who developed skin lesions on their hands after handling goats with wounds in the udders. Human orf is usually self-limiting and no specific treatment is needed.…”
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Mycobacterium senegalense Tissue Infection in a Child After Fish Tank Exposure by Rachel Talavlikar, Julie Carson, Bonnie Meatherill, Shalini Desai, Meenu Sharma, Cary Shandro, Gregory J. Tyrrell, Susan Kuhn

“…The patient presented with nonhealing wounds after sustaining facial lacerations from the shattered glass of a fish tank. …”
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The Effect of Autologous Platelet-Rich Gel on the Dynamic Changes of the Matrix Metalloproteinase-2 and Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinase-2 Expression in the Diabetic Chronic R... by Lan Li, Dawei Chen, Chun Wang, Guanjian Liu, Xingwu Ran

“…The granulation tissues from the target wounds were taken before and within 15 days after APG application. …”
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Genetic Evidence of Killer Whale Predation on White Sharks in Australia by Isabella M. M. Reeves, Andrew R. Weeks, Alison V. Towner, Rachael Impey, Jessica J. Fish, Zach S. R. Clark, Paul A. Butcher, Lauren Meyer, David M. Donnelly, Charlie Huveneers, Nicky Hudson, Adam D. Miller

“…Visual inspection of the carcass revealed that the liver, digestive, and reproductive organs were missing, and the presence of four distinctive bite wounds, one of which was characteristic of killer whale liver extraction as seen in South Africa. …”
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Recalcitrant Bilateral Volar Hand Burn Contracture in a Toddler Treated With Integra and Staged Full-thickness Skin Graft: A Literature Review by James C. Yuen, MD, Jennifer L. Wallace, BS, Susan C. Steelman, MLIS

“…Ten articles referred to the use of Integra on volar hand wounds or contractures, and only 2 articles used FTSG instead of split-thickness skin graft in combination with Integra. …”
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Antimicrobial test of five ethnomedicinal plants in an ancestral forest area by M.B. Bandibas, P. Roxas

“…These species are commonly used by the indigenous people and known to cure stomach disorder and wounds. The mode of preparation of the extracts follows the traditional method of the indigenous people. …”
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Management of a traumatic anorectal full-thickness laceration: a case report by Laura Fortuna, Andrea Bottari, Riccardo Somigli, Sandro Giannessi

“…Most rectal injuries are caused by gunshot wounds, blunt force trauma, and stab wounds. A 46-year-old male patient was crushed between two vehicles while he was working. …”
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