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Mortality after gunshot wounds to the thoracic aorta ranges from 92% to 100%. Survival is almost always in patients with injury from low-caliber, low-velocity bullets with hemorrhage contained by the wall of the aorta.
Eric C. Kuo, MD+3 more
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Radiculopathy as Delayed Presentations of Retained Spinal Bullet. [PDF]
Bullet injuries to the spine may cause injury to the anatomical structures with or without neurologic deterioration. Most bullet injuries are acute, resulting from direct injury. However, in rare cases, delayed injury may occur, resulting in claudication.
Choi, Man Kyu+3 more
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Gunshot-wound of the Pharynx [PDF]
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Gunshot wounds of the esophagus
During a 4 year period between 1970 and 1974 there were eleven esophageal gunshot wounds representing 52 per cent of the total esophageal perforations. The increased incidence of esophageal gunshot wounds reflects the higher rate of civilian gunshot injuries.
Y.C. Lee, James L. Berk, Julio Popovsky
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Bullet embolism in a case of homicide: Case report [PDF]
Introduction. Bullet embolism is a special form of embolism, where embolus is either a bullet or its fragment. Bullet penetrates through the injured part of the body into circulation and then travels to a distant part of the body, until it gets ...
Živković Vladimir+2 more
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Pattern and Outcome of Chest Injuries at Bugando Medical Centre in Northwestern Tanzania. [PDF]
Chest injuries constitute a continuing challenge to the trauma or general surgeon practicing in developing countries. This study was conducted to outline the etiological spectrum, injury patterns and short term outcome of these injuries in our setting ...
A Kalliopi+39 more
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Intraspinal Bullet Migration: A Rare Case Report
Bullet migration is rarely reported in the literature. Herein we represent a case of penetrating gunshot injury with bullet migration from thoracic T7 spine to T10.
Saniye Göknil Çalık+3 more
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‘They had no fever…’ Ambroise Paré (1510–1590) and his method of gunshot wounds management
By the fifteenth-century firearms had spread all over Europe, but surgeons had no idea how to cure gunshot wounds. It was generally accepted that high mortality from gunshot wounds could be explained by some kind of ‘gunshot poison’ entering the body ...
Elena Berger, Sergey Glyantsev
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Gunshot wounds to the chest have always occupied a special place among the entire set of gunshot wounds on the human body. Today, the one of the important challenges before the Navy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, - not only to restore the damaged ...
I.A. Lurin+6 more
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A preliminary examination of differential decomposition patterns in mass graves [PDF]
This study represents a preliminary, quantitative approach to the examination of differential decomposition patterns in mass graves. Five pairs of mass graves, each containing the carcasses of 21 rabbits, were used to examine decomposition rates at four ...
Adlam+51 more
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