Successful management of impaled ice-pick stab injury of the suprarenal aorta - lessons learnt by Sivaraman Kumarasamy, Satish Subbiah Nagaraj, Manish Kumar, Ajay Savlania, Lileswar Kaman

“…Some of these injuries are salvageable if treated in a timely and aggressive manner.Here we present a case of penetrating injury of the aorta with impalement of the ice-pick, which was successfully managed with laparotomy and primary repair of the aortic injury after adequate resuscitation.…”
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Evaluation of free-floating tracheal intubation in weightlessness via ice-pick position with a direct laryngoscopy and classic approach with indirect videolaryngoscopy by Séamus Thierry, François Jaulin, Clément Starck, Philippe Ariès, Jan Schmitz, Steffen Kerkhoff, Cécile Isabelle Bernard, Matthieu Komorowski, Tobias Warnecke, Jochen Hinkelbein

“…Free-floating video laryngoscopy at the head of the manikin had a significant better success score than conventional direct laryngoscopy in an ice-pick position. Our results, combined with the preexisting literature, emphasis the difficulties of performing oro-tracheal intubation, even for experts using modern airway devices, under postural instability in weightlessness. …”
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Atrophic acne scars, including scars less than 1.5 mm, may undergo spontaneous regression: A cohort study by Yevgeniy Balagula, MD, Alyssa Ashbaugh Ortega, MD, Maria S. Fazal, MA, Helena B. Pasieka, MD, MS, Peter L. Mattei, MD, Diane Kuhn, MD, Sherry Leung, BA, Dimitri Luz Felipe Silva, MD, Thy Thy Do, MD, Jeffrey S. Orringer, MD, Anna L. Chien, MD, Sewon Kang, MD

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Papulopustular demodicosis: a case report by Sri Mariyani, Kristiana Etnawati

“…On physical examination, there were pustules, multiple erythematous papules, ice pick atrophic scars, and box and rolling scars. …”
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Evidence-based surgical management of post-acne scarring in skin of color by Atula Gupta, Maninder Kaur, Suman Patra, Niti Khunger, Somesh Gupta

“…Trichloroacetic acid chemical reconstruction of skin scars showed efficacy in ice pick scars. Grade 4 scars improve poorly with resurfacing procedures, where punch excision and punch elevation can be tried. …”
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Posterior Proximal Cartilage of the Lateral Femoral Condyle as a Reference for Positioning the Femoral Tunnel in ACL Reconstruction by Luiz Gabriel Betoni Guglielmetti MD, PhD, Victor Marques de Oliveira MD, PhD, Marcos Barbieri Mestriner MD, MSc, Alfredo dos Santos Netto MD, MSc, Nayra Deise dos Anjos Rabelo PT, PhD, Viktor Nelson Mazzola Correa MD, Leandro Jun Aihara MD, Ricardo de Paula Leite Cury MD, PhD

“…Through it, with the aid of an ice pick or radiofrequency tip, a marking is made in the deep to shallow axis at 35% of this distance. …”
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