Management of Peripheral Nerve Injuries
Fig. 10.1 (a) A 37-year-old man presented to us 10 weeks after being wounded with shrapnel on the medial aspect of his left ankle injuring the tibial nerve. (b) Surgical…
Management of Central Nervous System War Injuries
Fig. 14.1 (a) CT of brain. 2.5 × 1.5 cm foreign body with right middle and inferior frontal gyri with overlying comminuted frontal bone fracture. (b) CT brain. Metallic foreign…
Early Microsurgical Management of Blast Injuries
Fig. 16.1 A 28-year-old woman presenting 10 days after sustaining a blast injury to her left hand . (a) Intraoperative photo following debridement, showing the composite defect on the dorsum…
Management of Brachial Plexus Injuries
Fig. 7.1 A 26-year-old male patient who presented 2 months after a bullet-penetrating injury to his right brachial plexus. Physical examination and EMG showed a total lesion of the right axillary…
Ballistics of Gunshot Wounds
Fig. 1.1 Precession or rotation of the bullet around the center of mass due to spin Nutation Small circular motions at the bullet tip (Fig. 1.2). Fig. 1.2 Nutation, small…
Infections in Combat-Related Wounds
Military/civilian Study sample Site Infection rate Outcome Most common organism Study Iraq British Military 48 Open femur fractures 8.33% 4% underwent amputation S. aureus [31] US Military 300 Lower…
Healing the Scars Within: Psychological Support for the War-Injured
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017Ghassan Soleiman Abu-Sittah, Jamal J. Hoballah and Joseph Bakhach (eds.)Reconstructing the War Injured Patienthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56887-4_18 18. Healing the Scars Within: Psychological Support for the War-Injured Brigitte Khoury1 and Sariah Daouk2 (1) Department of Psychiatry,…
Abdominal Wall Reconstruction
Fig. 12.1 (a) Case of penetrating abdominal injury due to sniper rifle shot . Full thickness midline defect closed temporarily using a mesh which will be covered with a split…
Biodynamics of Blast Injuries
Fig. 2.1 (a) Free-field wave—open-space wave. Classic Friedlander wave : An idealized blast overpressure waveform. (b) Simple free-field wave. A more realistic waveform. (c) Enclosed-space waveform . Blast overpressure is…
Bone Tumors Around the Knee
Fig. 13.1 CT scan of a chondroblastoma of the proximal tibial epiphysis. (a) It was treated by means of percutaneous radiofrequency ablation. (b) Electrode in place 13.2.2 Osteochondroma Osteochondroma, or…
