| Stab Wound
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Etiology
• Blades of a variety of types.
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Pathogenesis
• Mechanical destruction of tissue.,
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Epidemiology
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General Gross Description
• Incision or stab with a blade results in clean margins that usually can be easily approximated.
•Examples:
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General Microscopic Description
• Tissue disruption and hemorrhage.
•Examples:
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Clinical Correlation
• Related to loss of blood and damage to vital structures.
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References
• Cotran RS, Kumar V, Robbins SL: Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease. 5th ed. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1994, pp. 398.
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| Stab Wound
| | Synopsis by: Melinda Sanders M.D. (T01000E90020)[615]
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