Polish heart surgeon after 23 hours long heart transplantation. Surgery was succesful. His assistant is sleeping on the floor (1987)
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The wounds of a broken foot, sustained while jumping from a tree.
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Pseudophallus and Pseudoscrotal sac based on a Subcutaneous Lipoma. The male patient’s external genitalia was normal and both the testes were present in the normal scrotum. Examination revealed a long, nontender, soft, nonpulsatile, nondischarging, nonfluctuant, normal skin covered adult phallus-like appendage, having glans, meatus, prepuce, scrotum, and shaft, about 12 cm long and 4 cm in diameter at its root
This 11-year-old girl from Thailand is one of only 50 people known to have Ambras syndrome — a condition which makes hair grow all over the body, including her face and neck.
Hypertrichosis (also called Ambras syndrome) is an abnormal amount of hair growth over the bodyextensive cases of hypertrichosis have informally been called werewolf syndrome,because the appearance is similar to the mythological werewolfHypertrichosis can be either congenital (present at birth) or acquired later in life..
Hypertrichosis is often mistakenly classified as hirsutism. Hirsutism is a type of hypertrichosis exclusive to women and children, resulting from an excess of androgen-sensitive hair growth. Patients with hirsutism exhibit patterns of adult male hair growth. Chest and back hair are often present on women with hirsutism.
Hirsutism is both congenital and acquired. It is linked to excessive male hormones in women, thus symptoms may include acne, deepening of the voice, irregular menstrual periods, and the formation of a more masculine body shape. Increases in androgen (male hormone) levels are the primary cause of most hirsutism cases. If caused by increased levels of androgens, it can be treated with medications that reduce androgen levels. Some birth control pills and spironolactone reduce androgen levels.
Displaced compound transverse fracture of the radius and ulna
Fraser syndrome
The genetic background of this disease has been linked to a gene called FRAS1, which seems to be involved in skin epithelial morphogenesis during early development.
Characterized by developmental defects including cryptophthalmos (where the eyelids fail to separate in each eye), and malformations in the genitals
Sirenomelia, alternatively known as Mermaid Syndrome, is a very rare congenital deformity in which the legs are fused together.
This condition is found in approximately one out of every 100,000 live births (about as rare as conjoined twins) and is usually fatal within a day or two of birth because of complications associated with abnormal kidney and urinary bladder development and function. More than half the cases of sirenomelia result in stillbirth
![Facial Trauma Suicide Attempt using a shotgunPhoto at time of AdmissionAfter initial resuscitation in emergency department with intravenous fluids (colloid and crystalloids) and blood transfusion patient was stabilized and suctioning of the blood from the upper airway, a closer examination of the face was done. There was comminuted fracture of mandible, maxilla, and nasal bones. Tongue, hard palate, and nasal structures were not recognizable [Figure 1]. Three loose teeth were seen embedded in the lower half of the face. The eyes were spared and his vision was unimpaired. Cerebrospinal fluid leak could not be made out because of the presence of blood. The expired gases had an exit near the root of nasal structure, which could be made out by the movement of cotton strands and no foreign body was present. The neck was not injured. Nervous system examination, as far as could be elicited, was normal with no cranial nerve damage or sensory and motor weakness. On auscultation, the breath sounds were normal with no added sounds, suggesting no aspiration of blood into trachea. Rest of the systemic examination was also normal. Chest radiograph was normal and no foreign body was present. He was scheduled to undergo emergency tracheostomy for airway management, debridement, and closure of facial laceration under general anaesthesia
Source: http://openi.nlm.nih.gov/detailedresult.php?img=2700575_JETS-02-51-g001&req=4](http://24.media.tumblr.com/a22869e7de0ff351ecbd1d24d32f4583/tumblr_mmy4owfzqv1r1umdfo1_500.jpg)
Facial Trauma
Suicide Attempt using a shotgun
Photo at time of Admission
After initial resuscitation in emergency department with intravenous fluids (colloid and crystalloids) and blood transfusion patient was stabilized and suctioning of the blood from the upper airway, a closer examination of the face was done. There was comminuted fracture of mandible, maxilla, and nasal bones. Tongue, hard palate, and nasal structures were not recognizable [Figure 1]. Three loose teeth were seen embedded in the lower half of the face. The eyes were spared and his vision was unimpaired. Cerebrospinal fluid leak could not be made out because of the presence of blood. The expired gases had an exit near the root of nasal structure, which could be made out by the movement of cotton strands and no foreign body was present. The neck was not injured. Nervous system examination, as far as could be elicited, was normal with no cranial nerve damage or sensory and motor weakness. On auscultation, the breath sounds were normal with no added sounds, suggesting no aspiration of blood into trachea. Rest of the systemic examination was also normal. Chest radiograph was normal and no foreign body was present. He was scheduled to undergo emergency tracheostomy for airway management, debridement, and closure of facial laceration under general anaesthesia
Source: http://openi.nlm.nih.gov/detailedresult.php?img=2700575_JETS-02-51-g001&req=4
“My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was. I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy.
Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of” - My Medical Choice by Angelina Jolie, New York Times (14 May, 2013)
Taking such an invasive prophylactic action to ‘be around longer’ shows so much responsibility and love for her family…especially in a career field governed by appearance
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