Wounds, Penetrating

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A modern approach to cervical vascular trauma. 
  • Acute Surgical Decision-Making in Abdominal Trauma Is Not Altered by Race or Socioeconomic Status. 
  • Acute external laryngotracheal trauma: diagnosis and management. 
  • Airway management for victims of penetrating trauma: analysis of 50,000 cases. 
  • An ear punch model for studying the effect of radiation on wound healing. 
  • An evaluation of multidetector computed tomography in detecting pancreatic injury: results of a multicenter AAST study. 
  • An evidence-based approach to patient selection for emergency department thoracotomy: A practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. 
  • Atrial lead perforation: a case report. 
  • Bladder perforation secondary to clean intermittent catheterization. 
  • CT angiography effectively evaluates extremity vascular trauma. 
  • Cardiac injury due to accidental discharge of nail gun. 
  • Chain saw injuries to the face. 
  • Characterization of intraocular immunopathology following intracameral inoculation with alloantigen. 
  • Comparison of outcomes after laparoscopic and open pyloromyotomy at a high-volume pediatric teaching hospital. 
  • Complications associated with optical-access laparoscopic trocars. 
  • Continued progress in the prevention of nail gun injuries among apprentice carpenters: what will it take to see wider spread injury reductions? 
  • Continuing evolution in the approach to severe liver trauma. 
  • Current use and outcomes of helicopter transport in pediatric trauma: a review of 18,291 transports. 
  • Delayed evaluation of combat-related penetrating neck trauma. 
  • Demographics, treatment, and early outcomes in penetrating vascular combat trauma. 
  • Differences in Characteristics and Outcome of Patients with Penetrating Injuries in the USA and the Netherlands: A Multi-institutional Comparison. 
  • Don't hang your coat here. 
  • Early trauma induced coagulopathy (ETIC): prevalence across the injury spectrum. 
  • Effect of high product ratio massive transfusion on mortality in blunt and penetrating trauma patients. 
  • Emergent Endovascular Treatment of Penetrating Trauma: Solid Organ and Extremity. 
  • Endoscopic repair of a hypopharyngeal laceration in a professional sword-swallower. 
  • Endovascular treatment of inadvertent cannulation of the vertebro-subclavian arterial junction. 
  • Fascicular nerve suture. 
  • Imaging the oesophagus after penetrating cervical trauma using water-soluble contrast alone: simple, cost-effective and accurate. 
  • Interventional radiology in the management of bile duct injuries. 
  • Intraoperative assessment of critical biliary structures with visible range/infrared image fusion. 
  • Management of lawnmower injuries to the lower extremity in children and adolescents. 
  • Management of penetrating intraperitoneal colon injuries: A meta-analysis and practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. 
  • Multiple impalement with survival. 
  • Multiple, thin-walled cystic lesions of the lung. 
  • Musculoskeletal concerns do not justify failure to use safer sequential trigger to prevent acute nail gun injuries. 
  • Mycobacterium abscessus osteomyelitis following a plantar puncture wound. 
  • Nail gun injuries among construction workers. 
  • Nail gun injuries in apprentice carpenters: risk factors and control measures. 
  • Nail gun injuries treated in U.S emergency departments, 2006-2011: not just a worker safety issue. 
  • Nail-gun injuries treated in emergency departments--United States, 2001-2005. 
  • Optimal repair of the composite graft donor wound at the root of the helix. 
  • Osteomyelitis. Common causes and treatment recommendations. 
  • Overexpression of lysyl oxidase to increase matrix crosslinking and improve tissue strength in dermal wound healing. 
  • Penetrating femoropopliteal injury during modern warfare: experience of the Balad Vascular Registry. 
  • Penetrating trauma in children on the United States-Mexico border: Hispanic ethnicity is not a risk factor. 
  • Perioperative complications and adverse events of the MONARC transobturator tape, compared with the tension-free vaginal tape. 
  • Prevention of retrovirus infection after injury with contaminated instruments: an experimental study. 
  • Prevention of traumatic nail gun injuries in apprentice carpenters: use of population-based measures to monitor intervention effectiveness. 
  • Primary intraocular lens implantation in the setting of penetrating ocular trauma. 
  • Prospective study of incident injuries among southeastern United States commercial fishermen. 
  • Puncture marks on early African anthropoids. 
  • Recovery of skeletal muscle after laceration and repair. 
  • Sew it up! A Western Trauma Association multi-institutional study of enteric injury management in the postinjury open abdomen. 
  • Short bowel syndrome after trauma. 
  • Short-term outcomes of splenectomy avoidance in trauma patients. 
  • Snookered! Facial infection secondary to occult foreign body. 
  • Specific abbreviated injury scale values are responsible for the underestimation of mortality in penetrating trauma patients by the injury severity score. 
  • Strategies to minimize the risk of esophageal injury during catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation. 
  • Surviving a transfixing cardiac injury caused by a stingray barb. 
  • The evolution of the management of penetrating wounds of the heart. 
  • The incidence of ureteral obstruction and the value of intraoperative cystoscopy during vaginal surgery for pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • The management of fractures with soft-tissue disruptions. 
  • The natural history and recommended management of patients with traumatic coronary artery fistulas. 
  • The return of tourniquets. Original research evaluates the effectiveness of prehospital tourniquets for civilian penetrating extremity injuries. 
  • Tissue transglutaminase is expressed, active, and directly involved in rat dermal wound healing and angiogenesis. 
  • Trauma in pregnancy. 
  • Traumatic thoracic fistulas. 
  • Ultrasonographic appearance of intraneural injections in the porcine model. 
  • Utility of echocardiography in the management of patients with penetrating missile wounds of the heart. 
  • Western Trauma Association Critical Decisions in Trauma: Management of renal trauma. 
  • Who should we feed? Western Trauma Association multi-institutional study of enteral nutrition in the open abdomen after injury. 
  • Work related injuries in small scale commercial fishing. 
  • Wound botulism acquired in the Amazonian rain forest of Ecuador. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Chen, Jun, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine