“Shot to the Heart”: Case Report and Concise Review of Cardiac Gunshot Injury [PDF]
Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2020 Penetrative cardiac injury can often result in life-threatening sequelae such as myocardial contusion or rupture, coronary vessel and valvular damage, pericardial effusion with tamponade, and arrhythmias of which gunshot injury is a chief culprit.
Tiffany Kawall MBBS +5 more
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JACC: Case Reports, 2021 Penetrating cardiac injuries carry a grave prognosis. We present a rare case of thoracic gunshot injury where the bullet ricocheted and lodged in the pericardium without causing damage to the adjacent cardiac structures.
Jeetesh Jain, MD +4 more
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Experience and successful treatment of craniocerebral gunshot injury at a regional trauma center in Korea: a case report and literature review [PDF]
Journal of Trauma and Injury, 2022 Craniocerebral gunshot injuries is gradually increasing in the civilian population with a worse prognosis than closed head trauma. We experienced a case of craniocerebral gunshot injury which a bullet penetrating from the submandibular area into the ...
Mahnjeong Ha +4 more
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Endophthalmitis Secondary to Occult Intraocular Eyelashes Following Perforating Gunshot Injury: A Case Report [PDF]
International Medical Case Reports Journal, 2022 Hammouda Hamdy Ghoraba,1 Mahmoud Leila,2 Hashem H Ghoraba,1 Haithem Maamoun Abdelfattah,3 Emad Eldin Mohamed Elgemai4 1Retina Department, Magrabi Eye Hospital, Tanta, Egypt; 2Retina Department, Research Institute of Ophthalmology, Giza, Egypt ...
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Gunshot injury to the colon by expanding bullets in combat patients wounded in hybrid period of the Russian-Ukrainian war during 2014–2020 [PDF]
BMC Surgery, 2023 Background A gunshot wound to the colon is a frequent injury in armed conflicts. An example of a high-energy modern weapon is hollow-point bullets, which is associated with increased tissue damage and lethal outcome. The aim of this study was to evaluate
Kostiantyn Gumeniuk +5 more
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Utility of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) and surgical magnets for management of the patient with gunshot injury to the heart and pericardium in Russia-Ukraine war [PDF]
International Journal of Emergency MedicineBackground Russia-Ukraine war is associated with various kinds of ballistic injuries because of the application of all kinds of weapons. Gunshot injury to the heart and pericardium is rare and associated with high mortality.
Igor Lurin +7 more
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A Rare Case of a Gunshot Injury: No Urinary Symptoms with a Voided Bullet
Haseki Tıp Bülteni, 2016 Gunshot injuries to the abdominal cavity are cases of emergency which can be life-threatening depending on the organ/s affected. High-velocity penetrating injuries can cause both a penetrating injury to the organs on its’ route or can cause blast injury ...
Yasin Ceylan +5 more
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Gunshot injury to the chest wall with an unusual bullet trajectory: A rare case report. [PDF]
Int J Surg Case Rep, 2022 Anto J +5 more
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Organ injuries in civilian gunshot trauma
MGM Journal of Medical Sciences, 2019 Introduction: In the countries where firearm possession is illegal, the gunshot traumas are very rare. However, even in these countries they remain as a significant health problem and affect both adult and pediatric populations.
Leszek Sułkowski, Maciej Matyja
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Craniocerebral gunshot injury bullet migration to the cardiac right ventricle. [PDF]
Surg Neurol Int, 2021 Duda T, Zhang E, Reddy K.
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