Clinical Practice Guidelines for Peritonitis Treatment. by Frank Carlos Alvarez Li, Carlos Jaime Geroy Gómez, Diosdania Alfonso Falcón, Alexis Díaz Mesa

“…It is a general or local inflammatory process of the peritoneal membrane after a chemical irritation, bacterial invasion (intra-abdominal infection), local necrosis or direct contusion. It includes concept, classification, diagnosis, and medical and surgical treatment. …”
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Cross-species comparisons between pigs and mice reveal conserved sex-specific intraspinal inflammatory responses after spinal cord injury by Reena Kumari, Gabrielle V. Hammers, Robert H. Hammons, Andrew N. Stewart, Steven M. MacLean, Tracy Niedzielko, Lonnie E. Schneider, Candace L. Floyd, John C. Gensel

“…The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of sex on inflammation and outcomes in a pig thoracic contusion/compression SCI model. Methods Adult (gonad-intact) male and female Yucatan miniature swine were subjected to either SCI or sham (laminectomy-only) injury. …”
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Two Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for One Gunshot by Louis Pot, Alizée Porto, Audrey Le Saux, Amandine Bichon, Emi Cauchois, Marc Gainnier, Julien Carvelli, Jeremy Bourenne

“…The body computed tomography (body CT scan) documented right pulmonary contusions and a homolateral hemothorax. His condition rapidly deteriorated with refractory hypoxemia due to lung contusion requiring invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) and polytransfused hemorrhagic shock. …”
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Development of a simple prediction model for tracheostomy requirement after surgical resection of medulloblastoma in children by Sina Zoghi, Zahra Tabesh, Ali Ansari, Omid Yousefi, Mohammad Sadegh Masoudi, Reza Taheri

“…The simplified version included two predictors: preoperative brainstem invasion and postoperative brainstem contusion, each contributing equally to the score. …”
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Clinical and radiological comparison of the application of bone plates on the lateral and dorsal side of the os ilium in the treatment of corpus ossis ilium fractures in cats by Nuriza Zamirbekova, Elgin Orçum Uzunlu, Birol Özdil, Mustafa Arıcan

“…During the study, preoperative hemothorax in 3 cases, pnömothorax and lung contusion in 1 case, constipation in 4 of 14 cases, urinary bladder problem in 4 cases, numbness and paraplegia in the tail in 3 cases were observed postoperatively.…”
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Caffeic Acid Phenethyl Ester Protects Neurons Against Oxidative Stress and Neurodegeneration During Traumatic Brain Injury by Nurul Sulimai, Jason Brown, David Lominadze

“…Primary mouse brain cortical neurons were treated with Fg (0.5 or 1 mg/mL) in the presence or absence of CAPE. A cortical contusion injury -induced model of TBI in C57BL/6 mice was used. …”
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ICU Length of Stay and Factors Associated with Longer Stay of Major Trauma Patients with Multiple Rib Fractures: A Retrospective Observational Study by Hesham S. Abdelwahed, F. Eduardo Martinez

“…ISS, number of rib fractures, lung contusion, and flail chest were associated with prolonged ICU LOS in patients with traumatic multiple rib fractures.…”
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Occipital bone fractures in two-wheeler road traffic accidents: Understanding contrecoup brain injuries and implications for prevention by Robert Mark Wallang, R Giridharan, T. Arunan

“…The most common diagnoses were frontal hemorrhagic contusion (56.7%) and subdural hematoma (30%). Conservative management was more common among survivors (68.2%), while a higher proportion of nonsurvivors underwent surgical intervention (60.0%), though these differences were not statistically significant. …”
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Non-operative approaches to major blunt hepatic (Grade IV): a case report by Amirreza Salehi, Mansoor Kodori, Mohammad Sohrabi

“…Case presentation An 8-year-old Iranian child presented with a Grade IV liver laceration and contusion, pneumothorax, and rib fractures after a 1.5 m fall. …”
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Traumatic Asphyxia due to Automobile Accident. A Case Report by Elona Markeci, Admir Mustafa

“…In our case, we found associated injuries such as a fracture of the right 7th rib, displaced fracture of the right tibia, and bilateral pulmonary contusion. In our case, supportive therapy and specific treatment for the right tibial fracture were performed. …”
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Effect of Every-other-day Fasting on Level of Serum TNF-α in Rats after Acute Spinal Cord Injury by Jiancheng LIU, Wenchun WANG, Shaojie LUO, Yanbo LI, Yunhui ZHAO, Rizhao PANG, Chao DONG, Shanshan ZHANG, Anren ZHANG

“…Thoracic spinal cord injury models were established in rats of group A and group B by modified Allen contusion method, and laminectomy was performed in rats of group C. …”
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Outcomes Following Pars Plana Vitrectomy for Severe Ocular Trauma by Natalia K. Bober, Neruban Kumaran, Tom H. Williamson

“…Results: We identified assault and contusion injuries to be the most common mode and type of ocular injury in our cohort. …”
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Etanercept Attenuates Traumatic Brain Injury in Rats by Reducing Brain TNF-α Contents and by Stimulating Newly Formed Neurogenesis by Chong-Un Cheong, Ching-Ping Chang, Chien-Ming Chao, Bor-Chih Cheng, Chung-Zhing Yang, Chung-Ching Chio

“…It remains unclear whether etanercept penetrates directly into the contused brain and improves the outcomes of TBI by attenuating brain contents of TNF-α and/or stimulating newly formed neurogenesis. …”
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Successful minimally invasive management using transcatheter arterial embolization in a hemodynamically stable elderly patient with mesenteric vascular injury in a hybrid emergency... by So Ra Ahn, Joo Hyun Lee, Sang Hyun Seo, Chan Yong Park

“…Initial abdominal computed tomography showed no hemoperitoneum, but a mesenteric contusion and pseudoaneurysm with a diameter of 17 mm were observed near the origin of the superior mesenteric artery. …”
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Blunt Cardiac Injuries That Require Operative Management: A Single-Center 7-Year Experience by Seung Hwan Lee, Myung Jin Jang, Yang Bin Jeon

“…Purpose Blunt cardiac injuries (BCI) have a wide clinical spectrum, ranging from asymptomatic myocardial contusion to cardiac rupture and death. BCIs rarely require surgical intervention, but can be rapidly fatal, requiring prompt evaluation and surgical treatment in some cases. …”
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AAV-KLF7 Promotes Descending Propriospinal Neuron Axonal Plasticity after Spinal Cord Injury by Wen-Yuan Li, Ying Wang, Feng-Guo Zhai, Ping Sun, Yong-Xia Cheng, Ling-Xiao Deng, Zhen-Yu Wang

“…In vivo, young adult C57BL/6 mice received a T10 contusion followed by an AAV-KLF7 injection at the T7–9 levels above the lesion. …”
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Temporal and spatial pattern of DNA damage in neurons following spinal cord Injury in mice by Elle EM Scheijen, Naomi Veeningen, Sam Duwé, Anna Ivanova, Jana Van Broeckhoven, Sven Hendrix, David M Wilson

“…Nevertheless, the pathophysiological mechanisms leading to neuronal loss following SCI remain incompletely defined. Methods: Using a contusion model, a severe SCI was induced at the L1 spinal level in C57Bl/6J mice. …”
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Single-Port Laparoscopic Surgery Is Feasible and Safe for Hepatic Left Lateral Sectionectomy for Benign Liver Lesions by Yuan Cheng, Ze-sheng Jiang, Xiao-ping Xu, Wen-fa Huang, Guo-lin He, Chen-jie Zhou, Jia-sheng Qin, Yi Gao, Ming-xin Pan

“…There was no significant difference in the operative time, estimated intraoperative blood loss, length of hospital stay, and incidences of postoperative complications (biliary leakage, hemorrhage, and contusion at incision) between groups (all P>0.05). …”
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Effects of pharmacologic sclerostin inhibition or testosterone administration on soleus muscle atrophy in rodents after spinal cord injury. by Ean G Phillips, Luke A Beggs, Fan Ye, Christine F Conover, Darren T Beck, Dana M Otzel, Payal Ghosh, Anna C F Bassit, Stephen E Borst, Joshua F Yarrow

“…Male Sprague-Dawley rats aged 5 months received: (A) SHAM surgery (T8 laminectomy), (B) moderate-severe contusion SCI, (C) SCI+TE (7.0 mg/wk, im), or (D) SCI+Scl-Ab (25 mg/kg, twice weekly, sc). …”
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Local Inflammation in Fracture Hematoma: Results from a Combined Trauma Model in Pigs by K. Horst, D. Eschbach, R. Pfeifer, S. Hübenthal, M. Sassen, T. Steinfeldt, H. Wulf, S. Ruchholtz, H. C. Pape, F. Hildebrand

“…Combined trauma consisted of tibial fracture, lung contusion, liver laceration, and controlled hemorrhage. …”
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