OBJECTIVES: To study the morphological characteristics of the injury caused by ox horn on human body and its injury mechanism, and to discuss the rules and characteristics of injury by ox horn and provide forensic evidences for identification of such cases. METHODS: The comparative analysis of position and morphological characteristics were performed by summarizing the data of 100 victims gored by ox accepted by Heilongjiang agricultural areas public security bureau during 2004-2014. RESULTS: The specific injuries only could be found at the contact positions such as thorax and abdomen, lower back and limbs of the victims gored by ox horn. Most of the skin wounds had the characteristics of sharp injuries, the bar-type injury by club which called "rail way bruise" was an obvious characteristic appeared on the soft tissue. CONCLUSIONS Ox horn can cause non-specific injuries on thorax and abdomen, lower back and limbs of human body, which are similar with the characteristics of sharp injury and injury by club. Careful analyzation and identification should be performed on such injury in daily work.
Abdominal Injuries/etiology* ; Animals ; Cattle ; Female ; Humans ; Lower Extremity ; Thorax ; Wounds and Injuries/etiology* ; Wounds, Penetrating

Foreign Bodies ; complications ; Humans ; Neck Injuries ; etiology ; Thoracic Injuries ; etiology ; Wood ; Wounds, Penetrating ; etiology

Child ; Facial Paralysis ; etiology ; Humans ; Male ; Wounds and Injuries ; complications

Natural disasters may lead to the outbreaks of infectious diseases because they increase the risk factors for infectious diseases. This paper reviews the risk factors for infectious diseases after natural disasters, especially earthquake, and the infectious diseases following disasters reported in recent years. The infectious diseases after earthquake include diarrhea, cholera, viral hepatitis, upper respiratory tract infection, tuberculosis, measles, leptospirosis, dengue fever, tetanus, and gas gangrene, as well as some rare infections. Children are vulnerable to infectious diseases, so pediatricians should pay more attention to the research on relationship between infectious diseases and natural disasters.
Child ; Communicable Diseases ; etiology ; Diarrhea ; etiology ; Disasters ; Earthquakes ; Humans ; Respiratory Tract Infections ; etiology ; Wounds and Injuries ; complications

Adult ; Aneurysm, Dissecting ; etiology ; Coronary Aneurysm ; etiology ; Humans ; Male ; Myocardial Infarction ; etiology ; Wounds and Injuries ; complications

Since partial-thickness tears of the rotator cuff were described well by Codman in 1934, they have been extensively discussed in all kinds of literatures. Partial-thickness tears of the rotator cuff are now considered to play a more significant role than previously in inducing patients' disability. Partial-thickness cuff tears deserve more clinical attention. Both accurate diagnosis and proper surgical repair are very essential. The cognition of partial-thickness tears has been deepened in the last decades. In this paper we will review the etiology, classification and clinical evaluation of partial-thickness tears of the rotator cuff.
Diagnosis, Differential ; Diagnostic Imaging ; Humans ; Rotator Cuff Injuries ; Wounds and Injuries ; classification ; diagnosis ; etiology

Adult ; Arsenic Poisoning ; etiology ; Arsenicals ; Humans ; Male ; Skin ; injuries ; Skin Absorption ; Wounds and Injuries

Abdominal Injuries ; etiology ; surgery ; Adult ; Choledochal Cyst ; complications ; surgery ; Female ; Humans ; Laparotomy ; Wounds, Nonpenetrating ; etiology ; surgery

Accidents, Traffic ; Adult ; Heart Injuries ; complications ; etiology ; pathology ; Hernia ; etiology ; pathology ; Humans ; Male ; Pericardium ; injuries ; Rupture ; Wounds, Nonpenetrating ; complications

An isolated rupture of the posterior capsule that is caused by a blunt ocular trauma has been rarely reported and is usually detected incidentally during surgery for a complicated cataract. We found an isolated posterior capsule rupture on the third day after trauma in a 25-year-old man who was admitted for the treatment of traumatic hyphema and we performed a phacoemusification and anterior vitrectomy with PC-IOL, implantation because of the traumatic cataract which had progressed after the injury. The PC-IOL was implanted safely into the capsular bag without severe enlargement of the posterior capsular rupture. The break seems to function as a capsulotomy which provides a clear visual axis. We report this case with a review of the literatures.
Adult ; Case Report ; Cataract/*etiology ; Eye Injuries/*complications ; Human ; Lens Capsule, Crystalline/*injuries ; Male ; Rupture/etiology ; Wounds, Nonpenetrating/*complications