chrisdrudge | January 23, 2008Ribeiro JP, Marcelino P, Marum S, Fernandes AP, Grilo A. Case report: purple urine bag syndrome. Crit Care. 2004 Jun;8(3):R137. Epub 2004 Mar 31.
I'm starting a petition to change it's name to purple urine bag efflorescing syndrome.
Heh.
chrisdrudge | January 21, 2008Hadi HI, Quah HM, Maw A. A missing tongue stud: an unusual appendicular foreign body. Int Surg. 2006 Mar-Apr;91(2):87-9.
Mmm...appendicitis.
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Das G, Rawal N, Bolton LM. The case of the missing "Prince Albert". Obstet Gynecol. 2005 May;105(5 Pt 2):1273-5.
Okay, can someone attempt to explain to me the appeal of sticking a needle in my twig? Is it really that cool being able to pee out of two holes? Is the sex really that much better? People are so weird.
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Atac MS. Impacted earring clip visible on panoramic radiograph. Dentomaxillofac Radiol. 2006 Jan;35(1):36-7.
Oh, I left an earring in…
chrisdrudge | January 18, 2008Losanoff JE, Kjossev KT. Gastrointestinal 'crosses'. A new shade from an old palette. Arch Surg. 1996 Feb;131(2):166-9.
Okay, so within a single week in January of 1993, five male prisoners from the same Bulgarian prison were hospitalized with perforations of their gastrointestinal tracts. The perforations were the result of the prisoners' intentional ingestion of 'crosses' made out of paper clips and rubber bands. Two halves of a paper clip were tied crosswise with a rubber band, pulled together to collapse the cross, wrapped in a piece of paper, and ingested. The paper came loose along the…
chrisdrudge | January 16, 2008Gü;ndüz K, Celenk P, Kayipmaz S. An unusual foreign body (suturing needle) in the tonsillar region. J Contemp Dent Pract. 2004 Nov 15;5(4):148-54.
There's an awful lot of these.
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Kominami M, Fujikawa A, Tamura T, Naoi Y, Horikawa O. Retained surgical sponge in the thigh: report of the third known case in the limb. Radiat Med. 2003 Sep-Oct;21(5):220-2.
Surgical sponges have been left inside people with such frequency that they invented a word to describe it: gossypiboma.
Want more? Another case report.
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Reddy PK, Ramamoorthy R, Venkatsubramanian R, Muralidharan M. Laparoscopic…
chrisdrudge | January 15, 2008Smith LJ, Mulhall JP, Deveci S, Monaghan N, Reid MC. Sex after seventy: a pilot study of sexual function in older persons. J Sex Med. 2007 Sep;4(5):1247-53.
Eww, grandparent sex. Given that the study reported 18% of the women and 41% of the men were sexually active, there's potentially lots of old dudes out there banging younger ladies. Or stairway denied and stuck jerking off. Alright, sad AND disturbing! Also, most surprising statement ever: "Among the women, the most commonly cited reason for being sexually inactive was 'no desire,' whereas for most men, it was 'erectile dysfunction.'"
chrisdrudge | January 14, 2008Toquero L, Briggs CD, Bassuini MM, Rochester JR. Anal ulceration associated with Nicorandil: case series and review of the literature. Colorectal Dis. 2006 Oct;8(8):717-20. Review.
Worst adverse drug effect ever. Well, besides miscarriage or toxic epidermal necrolysis. Those suck pretty hard.
chrisdrudge | January 11, 2008Fain DB, McCormick GM. Vaginal "fisting" as a cause of death. Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 1989 Mar;10(1):73-5.
It's too old to find online, so allow me to summarize the short abstract: Guy and girl are fooling around, guy sticks entire hand and part of forearm up girl's vagina, girl subsequently dies. That's all I've got.
Edit: you can grab the paper here.
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Ivanovski O, Stankov O, Kuzmanoski M, Saidi S, Banev S, Filipovski V, Lekovski L, Popov Z. Penile strangulation: two case reports and review of the literature. J Sex Med. 2007 Nov;4(6):1775-80. Epub 2007 Sep 21.
In essence, improper (and…
chrisdrudge | January 10, 2008Wang Z, Leonard MH Jr, Khamapirad T, Castro CY. Bilateral extensive ductitis obliterans manifested by bloody nipple discharge in a patient with long-term diabetes mellitus. Breast J. 2007 Nov-Dec;13(6):599-602.
My girlfriend just informed me that if she had a band, she'd totally name it Bloody Nipple Discharge. Folks, I think I'm going to go looking for a wedding ring tomorrow. *Sigh*
chrisdrudge | January 8, 2008Hi everyone. First off, thanks for all of the encouraging comments and emails! I'm excited to be blogging here at ScienceBlogs, and I hope I can bring a little bit of humour and general silliness to the proceedings.
I realize that my RSS feed is currently not working, but the right people have been notified and a fix should be coming within the next couple of days. It's a new blog, so certain things have to be set up.
Thanks for reading! Since I've got your attention, if you come across any strange publications that might be good material for the blog, feel free to send them my way. I'll give…
chrisdrudge | January 8, 2008Ovchinnikov MM, PodgornyÄ GN, BalakhovskiÄ IS. [Quantitative ultraviolet, visible, and near infrared spectrophotometric analysis] Klin Lab Diagn. 2002 Feb;(2):6-11. Review. Russian.
Read the abstract. I'm fairly confident they meant Beer. And Bouguer.
And yes, I totally found this via PubMed by searching for 'booger'.
chrisdrudge | January 7, 2008Etter JF. Addiction to the nicotine gum in never smokers. BMC Public Health. 2007 Jul 17;7:159.
What, got tired of chewing regular gum? Nothing like paying more for nicotine-laced candy that you have to buy at a drug store and follow directions to use properly, no sir.
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DeFuentes-Merillas L, Koeter MW, Bethlehem J, Schippers GM, VanDenBrink W. Are scratchcards addictive? The prevalence of pathological scratchcard gambling among adult scratchcard buyers in the Netherlands. Addiction. 2003 Jun;98(6):725-31.
A nation in which marijuana is legal has enough people addicted to playing Crossword…
chrisdrudge | January 3, 2008Ruan X, Couch JP, Shah RV, Liu H, Wang F, Chiravuri S. Priapism--a rare complication following continuous epidural morphine and bupivacaine infusion. Pain Physician. 2007 Sep;10(5):707-11.
A guy named Wang writes a paper on priapism. All is well and good in the world.
chrisdrudge | December 24, 2007Maas RP, Patch SC, Pandolfo TJ. Artificial Christmas trees: how real are the lead exposure risks? J Environ Health. 2004 Dec;67(5):20-4, 32.
Spectacularly real, if you're a little kid. Neurotoxicity and neural development don't mix, yo. A live tree might be more expensive, messier, and require watering, but the most you're going to have to worry about health-wise is maybe being allergic to it.
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Philip J, Bresnihan M, Chambers N. A Christmas tree in the larynx. Paediatr Anaesth. 2004 Dec;14(12):1016-20.
A 2 year-old got a plastic Christmas tree decoration stuck in his throat. Okay, I can…