• With our minor surgery and trauma room, Wildwood Pediatrics is able to evaluate injuries and repair lacerations - either with the newer Dermabond ("superglue") technique or with the more traditional sutures (stitches) - at any time, day or night. (wildwoodpediatrics.com)
  • Common injuries include bite wounds, lacerations, facial injury, neck and spinal cord injury (particularly when a smaller animal is shaken by the larger animal), perforation of the abdominal cavity and underlying organs and perforation of the chest cavity.Injuries that result from bite wounds, falls from heights, or other accidents may cause similar signs to those caused by an automobile accident. (petplace.com)
  • The indirect injuries, lid laceration with tarsal plate fracture and with lacrimal punctum crack, were significantly more likely to lead to a poor prognosis, as comfirmed by the lower functional success rate of surgery. (researchsquare.com)
  • 2 It has been reported that 72% of lower canaliculus occurs in monocanalicular lacerations and that bicanalicular lacerations occur in 6% to 24% of all canalicular injuries. (researchsquare.com)
  • 3 Wulc and Arterberrydivided canalicular lacerations into direct trauma like knife and dog bite injuries, and indirect trauma, like blunt trauma, according to the mechanism of damage, and reported that patients with canalicular lacerations due to indirect or diffuse injuries were more than due to the presence of a penetrating injury. (researchsquare.com)
  • Earlier today, physicians there diagnosed his injuries as multiple fractures of ankle, bones supporting the foot, and elbow. (ledzeppelin.com)
  • Fractures, lacerations and contusions were the most common injuries associated with face or faceguard impacts while concussion was more commonly associated with impacts to the side or rear of the helmet shell. (bmj.com)
  • The most common types of hand injuries of this type include wrist or scaphoid fractures. (galfandberger.com)
  • Individuals who suffer these injuries may require casts or surgery, depending on the severity of the fracture. (galfandberger.com)
  • Limiting factors to the appropriate care of dental fractures in the emergency department setting include lack of knowledgeable and willing on-call dental professionals 24 hours a day and a lack of knowledge, experience, and focused training of emergency physicians in the care of dental injuries. (medscape.com)
  • Ellis II: Injuries in this category are fractures that involve the enamel as well as the dentin layer. (medscape.com)
  • [ 2 , 3 ] A Korean study found that among the most common risk factors for tooth fracture are failure to wear a seatbelt in a motor vehicle, failure to wear a helmet while riding a motorcycle or bicycle, and injuries associated with the use of earphones and smartphones. (medscape.com)
  • The middle and distal thirds of the nail bed are the most frequent sites of injury, and 50% of injuries involve fracture of the distal phalanx, tuft, or both. (medscape.com)
  • When two or more injuries or illnesses are indicated and one is more severe than the other(s) and is not a sequela or complication of the other injury or illness, select the more severe injury or illness Example: For sprained finger and fractured wrist, choose Fractures . (cdc.gov)
  • Example: If a laceration became infected developing into septicemia, choose Cuts, lacerations . (cdc.gov)
  • Major trauma and serious fractures are referred whenever appropriate. (wildwoodpediatrics.com)
  • A corneal laceration is a partial- or full-thickness injury to the cornea that can occur from trauma to the eye. (medscape.com)
  • When evaluating eye trauma with evidence of corneal injury, it is important to assess for full-thickness laceration and the resulting ruptured globe. (medscape.com)
  • Signs of head trauma may include swelling of the nose or around the eyes, bleeding from the ears, mouth or nose, bleeding into the eye, unequal pupil size or fractures of the skull. (petplace.com)
  • Canalicular laceration is commonly regarded as ocular emergency, caused by trauma in the eyelids and periorbital area, frequently involving the lower canaliculus, that has been reported in all age groups. (researchsquare.com)
  • 1 They are present in approximately 16% of all eyelid lacerations due to ocular trauma. (researchsquare.com)
  • Her skull was fractured and her body was covered in lacerations and purple contusions. (cbc.ca)
  • The physician must be meticulous in examining the cornea and periorbital structures if there is suspicion of a corneal laceration. (medscape.com)
  • Mortality from corneal lacerations is rare, but morbidity can be significant. (medscape.com)
  • Corneal lacerations or subsequent secondary infection (endophthalmitis) can result in complete or partial loss of vision, loss of the eye, or systemic infection. (medscape.com)
  • Fracture of the orbit may result in damage to the nerve that provides vision and cornea, resulting in corneal ulceration or blindness. (acvs.org)
  • A corneal or scleral laceration is visible. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Fractures of the orbit may result in swelling of the eyelids, abnormal shape to the skull, air pockets under the skin that crackle when touched, bleeding from the nose and/or a bulging look to the eyeball. (acvs.org)
  • One female customer had a fractured skull that required surgery and a broken arm. (cbsnews.com)
  • Complicated lid lacerations, which include those of the medial portion of the lower or upper eyelid (possibly involving the lacrimal canaliculus), through-and-through lacerations, those in which the patient has ptosis, and those that expose orbital fat or involve the tarsal plate, should also be repaired by an ophthalmic surgeon. (msdmanuals.com)
  • There were 100 (70.42%) patients who had lid laceration without tarsal plate fracture and 42 (29.58%) patients who had lid laceration with tarsal plate fracture. (researchsquare.com)
  • Minor lid lacerations not involving the lid margin or tarsal plate may be repaired with nylon or polypropylene (or, in some populations such as children, absorbable suture such as plain gut) 6-0 or 7-0 sutures. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Equine flexor tendon lacerations are a relatively common injury in the horse. (ivis.org)
  • 1-5 The prognosis of flexor tendon lacerations in the horse varies from poor to good with reports of 45%, 6 59%, 3 and 78% 1 of survival. (ivis.org)
  • Therefore, similar results as with more traditional therapeutic protocols of treatment of flexor tendon lacerations are obtained without incurring the expense of hospitalization. (ivis.org)
  • This moulage shows an open fracture of a smaller limb bone. (anatomywarehouse.com)
  • A fracture is a break in the bone . (lawfran.com)
  • there was no indication of any other fracture/bone deformities or anomalies osteo-articular (blue sclera, osteogenesis imperfecta, or hypotonia). (hindawi.com)
  • In particular, Welding-Hofmann disease, the pathology that promotes bone atrophy and facilitates pathologic fractures of long bones, was excluded. (hindawi.com)
  • [ 1 ] Stellate laceration or multiple fragments of nail bed can occur when the nail is crushed between a larger object and the bone. (medscape.com)
  • The vaginal breech birth, even if rarely, can lead to traumatic outcome as a fracture of the femur [ 1 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Doctors determined the man had suffered a kidney laceration and a spinal fracture, cops explained. (okmagazine.com)
  • In addition, as asymptomatic controls, we enrolled children undergoing intravenous cannulation for procedural sedation for fracture reduction or laceration repair without acute infectious symptoms. (cdc.gov)
  • In Ellis II and III fractures in which the dentin or pulp is exposed, the clinician caring for the tooth fracture in the acute setting must create a seal over these injured teeth to protect the pulp from intraoral flora and potential infection. (medscape.com)
  • The examination revealed a fracture of the right femur in which the proximal segment displaced anteriorly compared to the middle and distal segment (Figure 1 ). (hindawi.com)
  • Ellis I: This level of injury includes crown fractures that extend through the enamel only. (medscape.com)
  • Fractures of the zygomatic complex are frequent and often associated with facial lacerations or swelling from soft tissue injury 1,2 . (bvsalud.org)
  • Fractures can occur when the body is subjected to sudden and extreme force, such as a motor vehicle accident. (lawfran.com)
  • Lacerations can occur when the body is hit by flying glass or debris. (lawfran.com)
  • On the other hand, some of these signs and symptoms are not specific to zygomatic complex fractures, and may occur with maxillary or nasal fractures. (bvsalud.org)
  • While history may point to the etiology of the laceration, sometimes the patient may not remember a discrete inciting event. (medscape.com)
  • Purpose: To evaluate the etiology of lacrimal canalicular lacerations and explore possible risk factors influencing prognosis. (researchsquare.com)
  • The mini-Monoka is one of the monocanalicular stents, comprised of a silicon rod with a bulb and collar at the proximal end, which makes it self-retaining, 8 Mini-Monoka insertion has its own indications and is suitable for conditions, such as canalicular lacerations, involving the external two-thirds of one canaliculus without damaging the canthal ligament. (researchsquare.com)
  • Statistical analyses showed a correlation only for subconjunctival ecchymosis with gender (p=0.032), and for diplopia with fracture of the orbital floor (p=0.031). (bvsalud.org)
  • When a subungual hematoma exists with an intact nail, an underlying simple laceration may be present. (medscape.com)
  • Animals with fractures of the extremities require four to six weeks of limited and supervised exercise. (petplace.com)
  • Your veterinarian may want you to cage rest your pet to allow some fractures (such as those of the pelvis) to heal. (petplace.com)
  • She has four fractures of the pelvis and facial lacerations. (ledzeppelin.com)
  • After the nail bed is accurately approximated, suture the margins of the laceration with 6-0 or 7-0 absorbable monofilament sutures. (medscape.com)
  • Methods: A total of 142 patients (142 eyes) with lacrimal canalicular lacerations were reviewed and surgically repaired between March 2017 and March 2018. (researchsquare.com)
  • 6,7 Several factors impacting the effectiveness of laceration repair include the extent and location of canalicular laceration, the intubation materials, the duration of intubation, and the surgical technique. (researchsquare.com)
  • Signs and symptoms of the fracture of the zygomatic complex are closely related to the surgical anatomy of the part 1 . (bvsalud.org)
  • this causes a clean laceration of nail bed. (medscape.com)
  • If the laceration does not extend beyond the lateral nail fold and if no significant deformity or fracture of the nail is present, the nail should not generally be removed to rule out laceration. (medscape.com)
  • In this situation, the laceration is more likely to heal well without nail removal and laceration repair. (medscape.com)
  • The breech extraction of the fetus through the vagina has a greater risk of hip fracture compared with the extraction by abdominal route. (hindawi.com)
  • The purpose of this study was to evaluate signs and symptoms presented by a series of patients attended in a hospital clinic with a diagnosis of fracture of the zygomatic complex. (bvsalud.org)
  • Fifty consecutive patients with a diagnosis of unilateral fractures of the zygomatic complex were studied. (bvsalud.org)
  • There were few correlations between personal data or classification of the fractures and specific signs or symptoms. (bvsalud.org)
  • It was concluded that there are signs and symptoms that can be considered typical of fractures of the zygomatic complex and that there are few correlations between the factors studied. (bvsalud.org)
  • It has been reported that more complex fractures, such as a tripod fracture with a distracted frontozygomatic suture, have more signs and symptoms associated with them 3 . (bvsalud.org)
  • However, no study has correlated signs and symptoms with demographic data or the classification of these fractures. (bvsalud.org)
  • Some signs and symptoms, such as flattening of the malar prominence, ecchymosis of the lids and conjunctiva, diplopia, anesthesia in the distribution of the infraorbital nerve, and mandibular trismus, have been described as characteristic of zygomatic complex fractures 4,5 . (bvsalud.org)
  • Dental fractures are divided into categories based on the Ellis classification system. (medscape.com)
  • Ellis III: These fractures involve the enamel, dentin, and pulp layers. (medscape.com)
  • On the tenth day after birth, the radiogram control showed the formation of a callus at the level of the margins of fracture. (hindawi.com)
  • The ability to care for dental fractures in the emergency department or clinic setting is a skill required during the career of every clinic-based or emergency clinician. (medscape.com)
  • Cross section of an Ellis III dental fracture. (medscape.com)
  • Dental fractures are most common in children, youth, and young adults. (medscape.com)
  • A laceration is a deep cut or tears in the skin. (lawfran.com)
  • A retrospective analysis of the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project found that between 2008 and 2010, a total of 199,061 emergency department visits were attributed to broken or fractured teeth and that males comprised 63% percent of emergency department visits. (medscape.com)
  • I couldn't take his helmet off until he got a cervical collar on, so I couldn't assess if he had a head laceration. (medscape.com)
  • 9 ] showed that the fracture of long bones occurred in 0.1% of cases during caesarean section and 0.5% for vaginal delivery. (hindawi.com)
  • Planning caesarean section reduces the risk of fracture of long bones but does not eliminate the possibility [ 10 - 13 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • We present a case of right femur fracture that occurred in the course of cesarean section performed because of breech presentation. (hindawi.com)
  • Evaluation can be difficult when massive lid edema or laceration is present. (msdmanuals.com)
  • 5 The canalicular anastomosis combined with bicanalicular or monocanalicular stent intubation is used for primary canalicular laceration repairs. (researchsquare.com)