Penetrating Wounds (Penetrating Wound)

04/01/1972 - "Prophylactic antibiotics in penetrating wounds of the abdomen."
03/01/1977 - "[Comparative assessment of effectiveness of treatment with antibiotics and phage in acute purulent pleurisy with penetrating wounds of the chest in experimental animals]."
06/01/1990 - "Many of the procedures described in civilian peacetime settings, such as reliance on antibiotics alone for the control of infection in penetrating wounds, or minimal excision and debridement, can yield good results but would herald disaster if transposed to a war setting."

02/01/2004 - "Surgery and other types of penetrating wounds cause pain that is not always relieved by opioids and/or less potent analgesics. "

02/01/2004 - "Surgery and other types of penetrating wounds cause pain that is not always relieved by opioids and/or less potent analgesics. "

02/01/2008 - "The aim of this study is to declare our experience and to identify the important factors that influence the mortality and morbidity in patients with combat-related penetrating wounds of the abdomen (CR-PWA) with major venous vessel injuries. "
01/01/1996 - "A preoperative arteriography was performed on only five patients, victims of multiple penetrating trauma or an asymptomatic penetrating wound along a vessel passage. "
11/01/2008 - "An acute respiratory distress-syndrome is marked by 32 wounded with heavy and extremely heavy wounds, including 10--with penetrating wound of brainpan, 9--penetrating wound of bosom and tense hemopneumothorax, 11--penetrating wound of abdomen (with deflection of hollow and parenchymal organs), 2--penetrating wound of lower limbs (with firing breakup of long bones and deflections of great vessel), attended by blood loss and shock. "

01/01/2001 - "This observation matches our previous study using a physical gelatin model of delineate the penetrating wound profiles for different projectile types. "
10/04/1980 - "Therapeutic embolization by means of autologous clots or fragments of gelatin sponge was carried out in 11 patients suffering from renal haemorrhage of traumatic origin (5 needle biopsies, 3 surgical operations, 2 external traumas, 1 penetrating wound). "

07/01/1989 - "3. Recognition that fibrin glue appears to be a useful topical agent in preliminary clinical studies; 4. Use of hepatotomy with selective vascular ligation instead of mattress sutures for deep lacerations or to control hemorrhage from tracts of penetrating wounds; 5. Use of resectional débridement of devitalized tissue and selective vascular ligation instead of formal anatomical resection; 6. Use of an "omental pack" as a filler of deep cracks or hepatotomy sites instead of closure with mattress sutures; 7. Use of perihepatic packing in selected patients instead of resection when a coagulopathy or major subcapsular hematoma is present; 8. Discontinued use of perihepatic drains for minor or moderate hepatic injuries as long as discrete methods of selective vascular and biliary ligation have been used."

02/01/1992 - "In the present study, the expression of vimentin by epithelial cells in healing corneal wounds (partial thickness penetrating wounds) and in tissue culture was analyzed. "

05/01/1990 - "Comprehensive morphologic studies (including light microscopy, morphometry, autoradiography) of experimental rabbits have revealed a stimulating effect of fibronectin instillations on healing of central penetrating wounds of the cornea. "

05/01/1997 - "Sympathetic ophthalmia developed 21 years after penetrating wound during a relapse of posttraumatic uveitis 10 days after enucleation of the injured eye and discontinuation of dexamethasone. "
04/01/2002 - "Paracetamol, diclofenac, and dexamethasone have been shown to increase intensity of enzymatic fibrinolysis and suppress non-enzymatic lysis of fibrin in the liquid of the anterior chamber of the eye of rabbits with penetrating wound in the sclerotic coat."
04/01/2002 - "In rabbits effects were studied of paracetamol, diclofenac, dexamethasone, and prostaglandins E1, E2 and F2a on the time-course of changes in enzymic fibrinolysis of liquid in the anterior chamber of the eye in penetrating wound in the sclerotic coat. "
01/01/1985 - "Epidermal growth factor (EGF, 0.5 mg ml-1), fibroblast growth factor (FGF, 20 micrograms ml-1), and insulin (0.5 mg ml-1) were tested for their ability to accelerate healing of totally penetrating wounds in rabbit corneas when the hormones were administered alone or in combination with dexamethasone (1 mg ml-1). "

01/01/1983 - "A feature of the penetrating wound that appears important in the pathogenesis of SO is the access it provides for intraocular antigens to reach regional lymph nodes. "
09/01/1981 - "The antigen then gains access to the regional lymphatics by way of the penetrating wound. "
11/01/2007 - "The use of Profetal for correction of the stress- and trauma-induced changes in the immune response against a xenogeneic antigen in rats with a penetrating wound of the eye."

05/01/1993 - "Diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL) and computed tomography (CT) have been the mainstays in recent years for diagnosis of equivocal nontherapeutic laparotomy, whereas CT is not helpful for the vast majority of penetrating wounds. "
09/01/2011 - "The necessity of urgent explorative laparotomy as a standard procedure in the treatment of abdominal penetrating wounds is controversial. "
03/01/2010 - ": Although the rate of nontherapeutic laparotomies after penetrating wounds to the abdomen should be minimized, this should never be at the expense of a delay in the diagnosis and treatment of injury. "
07/01/2001 - "From 1989 to 1998, 1933 patients underwent exploratory laparotomy for penetrating wounds to the abdomen. "
10/01/1998 - "Its utility lies in assessment of the need for laparotomy in patients with penetrating wounds. "

09/01/1990 - "For this reason, we recommend that all penetrating wounds to the face be surgically explored before debridement and closure."
10/01/1983 - "Prompt and radical debridement with exenteration of the affected sinus and watertight closure of the dura mater represent the key to the reduction of complications when dealing with penetrating wounds involving the air sinuses."
03/01/2008 - "The lessons proposed by the study are that minor wound should be left open, small penetrating wound should be thoroughly explored and observed and lacerated wounds need emergency dressing, debridement and subsequent cleansing procedures. "
10/01/2006 - "Extremity injuries included penetrating wounds requiring operative debridement in 64% of cases, articular dislocations in 4%, closed fractures in 4%, and open fractures in 1% of cases. "
06/01/1990 - "Many of the procedures described in civilian peacetime settings, such as reliance on antibiotics alone for the control of infection in penetrating wounds, or minimal excision and debridement, can yield good results but would herald disaster if transposed to a war setting."

04/01/1980 - "Myocardial scintigrams are helpful in determining the degree of damage produced by penetrating wounds of the heart and can also detect electrical injury to the heart from accidental shock or cardioversion. "

08/01/1982 - "In patients with penetrating wounds above the diaphragm, emergency thoracotomy may be considerable benefit as demonstrated in our study by a 66.6% salvage rate."
09/01/2012 - "Patients who sustain a single penetrating wound to the chest have the best survivability after a resuscitative thoracotomy. "
01/01/1987 - "Hence, early thoracotomy is generally indicated and should be generously decided to handle penetrating wounds of the chest. "
10/01/1985 - "[Thoracotomy in penetrating wounds of the chest]."
10/01/1960 - "[Treatment of penetrating wounds of the pericardium and heart by means of immediate thoracotomy. "

01/01/2004 - "In 55 (77.1%) patients with wounds penetrating into duodenum (or disruption of duodenum) suture of defects was performed. "
07/01/1963 - "[THE USE OF MECHANICAL SUTURES IN THE TREATMENT OF PENETRATING WOUNDS OF THE EYEBALL]."
07/01/1952 - "[Penetrating wound of the heart caused by bullet; suture; recovery]."
01/04/1952 - "[Penetrating wound of the heart; suture of the right auricle and cure; report of a second case]."
11/01/1904 - "VII. Penetrating Wounds of the Chest, Perforating the Diaphragm, and Involving the Abdominal Viscera: Case of Successful Spleen Suture for Traumatic Haemorrhage."