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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Links between traumatic brain injury and ballistic pressure waves originating in the thoracic cavity and extremities [PDF]
Brain Injury, Volume 21, Issue 7, June 2007, pages 657-662, 2008 Identifying patients at risk of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is important because research suggests prophylactic treatments to reduce risk of long-term sequelae. Blast pressure waves can cause TBI without penetrating wounds or blunt force trauma. Similarly, bullet impacts distant from the brain can produce pressure waves sufficient to cause mild to ...
Alexander MP +29 more
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Successful surgical treatment of a patient with combined gunshot shrapnel injuries in the heart and brain complicated by middle cerebral artery pseudoaneurysm [PDF]
Trauma Case Reports, 2018 Summary: Successful step-by-step treatment of a combined gunshot shrapnel injury of the brain, damaging the left middle cerebral artery (MCA) branches, and penetrating myocardium injury is discussed. Open brain and heart surgeries were performed.
Andrii Sirko +6 more
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Cardiac Gunshot Injury: A Serendipitous Miss! [PDF]
JACC Case Rep, 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. Multimodality imaging helped in localizing the bullet, assessing damage, and planning safe surgical removal without cardiopulmonary ...
Jain J +4 more
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Determined to Die! Ability to Act Following Multiple Self‐inflicted Gunshot Wounds to the Head. The Cook County Office of Medical Examiner Experience (2005–2012) and Review of Literature [PDF]
Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2015 Cases of multiple (considered 2+) self-inflicted gunshot wounds are a rarity and require careful examination of the scene of occurrence; thorough consideration of the decedent’s psychiatric, medical, and social histories; and accurate postmortem ...
Aniello Maiese, Lorenzo Gitto
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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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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 ...
Ghoraba HH +4 more
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“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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A Retained Bullet in Pericardial Sac: Penetrating Gunshot Injury of the Heart [PDF]
Case Reports in Cardiology, 2016 Penetrating cardiac trauma is rarely seen but when present there is a short time lag to keep the patients alive. Cardiac gunshot injuries are exceptional and it occurs mostly during interpersonal disagreements casualties or a mistakenly fired gun ...
Adnan Kaya +8 more
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Transaortic gunshot wound through perivisceral segment successfully managed by placement of thoracic stent graft [PDF]
Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases and Innovative Techniques, 2018 We describe a 36-year-old woman who presented to our facility after sustaining a gunshot wound to the epigastric region. The gunshot resulted in injury to the left lobe of the liver and the twelfth thoracic vertebral body as well as in a through-and ...
Jared T. Feyko, DO +4 more
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