Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5777/1510047
Delayed-Onset Pericarditis in Non-penetrating Blunt Force Trauma: A Case Report
Andrew Mc Cague, Kerala Serio and Joanne Leibe
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: December 24, 2016
There have been rare documented instances where blunt-force trauma has been suspected to cause a delayed disease process that manifests days or weeks after the initial injury. This is a case report of a 30 year old male who suffered blunt chest trauma during a motor vehicle accident. On hospital day five the patient began to complain of significant chest pain, an increase in pain with each heartbeat, increased pain when sitting up, shortness of breath and experienced a syncopal episode in the sh...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5777/1510046
Isolated Pancreas Injury by Blunt Trauma, a Case Report
Samet Sahin, Raziye Duruk, Cengiz Ceylan, Erdinc Cetinkaya and Mesut Tez
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: December 24, 2016
We here in present our experience with the rare injury of main pancreatic duct because of the blunt trauma and managed by pancreatico-enterostomy. A 35-year-old male patient presented with a motor vehicle accident and was diagnosed isolated pancreas main duct ınjury by blunt trauma. Computerized tomography (CT) was used as a diagnostic method and were confirmed by Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5777/1510045
Isolated Dislocation of the Tarsal Navicular without Fracture: Case Report
Maicon Bonaldo Dias, Bruna Zagonel, Melissa Sofia Dickel, Jessica Arsego Talheimer, Isabel Schuster Argenton, Jeniffer Charlene Silva Dalazen, Bruno Vicenzo Thomas Bresolin, Gabriel Alves Martinelli, Osvaldo Iha Yoshida, Patricia Tirelli Lena, Romualdo de Lima Pilecco, Vitor Hugo Peijo Galerani, Ana Cristina Eickhoff, Eduardo Rosa Otharan and Rafael Duvelius Ott
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: November 28, 2016
Isolated dislocation of the tarsal navicular bone is a rare lesion. The mechanism of this specific trauma is still not well to understood, due to the strength needed in different ways and directions for its occurrence, in a complex way. Few cases of an isolated dislocation of the navicular reported in medical literature, and there is little information about complications how the patients evolve after years of postoperative. The authors present a case of a woman, 39-years-old, who suffered a com...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5777/1510044
Free Flap Coverage of a Medial Ankle Wound in a Patient with Arteria Peronea Magna
Steven L Peterson and Tuan A Nguyen
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: November 28, 2016
While the vascular anatomy to the lower extremity is fairly consistent, anatomical variants do exist. One such variant is the arteria peronea magna. This anatomic variant results in single vessel arterial flow to the foot through an enlarged peroneal artery with unique distal branching. The focus of interest in this vascular pattern in microsurgery has been increased risk of lower extremity devascularization during harvest of a free fibular flap for reconstruction at other anatomical sites. This...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5777/1510043
Bilateral Simultaneous Rupture of the Quadriceps Tendons in Healthy Individuals
Takuro Moriya and Abe Yoshihiro
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: October 18, 2016
Quadriceps tendon rupture is an uncommon injury in healthy individuals. This paper presents two case reports of patients of bilateral quadriceps tendon rupture, who were misdiagnosed as muscle weakness of quadriceps with contusion of the knee joint. Subsequent physical examination showed a supra-patellar gap, moderate hemarthrosis of both knees, and failure of active knee extension. MRI showed bilateral rupture of the quadriceps tendons at the osteotendinous junction. Radiographs described the d...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5777/1510042
Tillaux and Volkmann Fractures: A Report on Two Cases, Treatment Determined by Syndesmosis Instability
Jike Lu and Masumi Maruo Holledge
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: September 15, 2016
We report two cases of isolated Tillaux fracture and Volkmann fracture without other associated ankle fractures. The case of Tillaux fracture was a 15-year-old female who tripped and fell over during a 400 m hurdle running competition. Preoperative radiographs and CT scans showed Salter-Harris type III, an isolated Tillaux fragment, with more than 2 mm anterior and lateral displacement. Surgical stabilization of Tillaux fragment was performed via anterolateral minimal invasive approach with anat...
