Infection Rates and Treatment of Low-Velocity Extremity Gunshot Injuries.

Objectives: To determine the rates of infection in low-energy gunshot wounds (GSWs) to the extremity.

Design: Retrospective review.

Setting: Level I trauma center.

Infection and Complications After Low-velocity Intra-articular Gunshot Injuries.

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to characterize the demographics, interventions, infection rates, and other complications after intra-articular (IA) gunshot wounds.

Design: Retrospective review.

Setting: Level I trauma center.

Microscopic thrombi in anaplastic astrocytoma predict worse survival?

The purpose of this study is to determine whether anaplastic astrocytoma patients with intratumoral vascular thrombi have a worse survival than anaplastic astrocytoma patients without thrombi. A retrospective review of 101 patients (60 males; mean age, 53.3 years) with anaplastic astrocytoma (World Health Organization grade III) was conducted.

Microscopic thrombi in glioblastoma multiforme do not predict the development of deep venous thrombosis.

Patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) are known to be at risk for hypercoagulable events. Tumoral intravascular thrombi likely contribute to the development of hypoxia and necrosis. The purpose of this study was to assess whether there is a relationship between the number of thrombi identified microscopically at the time of tumor resection and the subsequent development of extremity deep venous thrombosis (DVT).