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Maxillofacial Gunshot Wounds

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2015
AbstractThe majority of maxillofacial gunshot wounds are caused by suicide attempts. Young men are affected most often. When the lower one-third of the face is involved, airway patency (1.6% of the cases) and hemorrhage control (1.9% of the cases) are the two most urgent complications to monitor and prevent.
Benoît Houzé, Jennifer Culoma, Stéphane Dubourdieu, Hugues Lefort, Jean-Pierre Tourtier, Stanislas Ballivet de Régloix, Olga Maurin, Guillaume Burlaton, Stéphane Boizat   +8 more
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Gunshot Injuries in American Trauma Centers: Analysis of the Lethality of Multiple Gunshot Wounds

The American surgeon, 2020
Introduction Trauma center care and survival have been improving over the past several years. However, yearly firearm-related deaths have remained near constant at 33 000.
Ahmad Zeineddin, Mallory Williams, H. Nonez, Wasay Nizam, Olubode A. Olufajo, G. Ortega, A. Haider, E. Cornwell   +7 more
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Postmortem Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Gunshot Wounds to the Neck

Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2020
Postmortem magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is rarely used for the radiologic assessment of gunshot injuries, although it has clear advantages over postmortem computed tomography (CT) with regard to the imaging of soft tissue injuries. Another benefit in
D. Gascho, M. Marosi, M. Thali, E. Deininger-Czermak   +3 more
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Gunshot Wounds to the Upper Extremity.

Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 2019
Upper extremity gunshot wounds result in notable morbidity for the orthopaedic trauma patient. Critical neurovascular structures are particularly at risk.
Reza Omid, M. Stone, C. Zalavras, Geoffrey S. Marecek   +3 more
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Gunshot Wounds: Ballistics and Imaging Findings.

Seminars in ultrasound, CT, and MR, 2019
Ballistic traumas are defined by a projectile entering the body. Such projectiles include bullets, birdshot, and metal fragments from the covering or the contents of an explosive device.
A. Pinto, A. Russo, A. Reginelli, F. Iacobellis, M. Di Serafino, S. Giovine, L. Romano   +6 more
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Evaluation and Management of Abdominal Gunshot Wounds: A Western Trauma Association Critical Decisions Algorithm.

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2019
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Matthew J. Martin, Carlos V. R. Brown, D. Shatz, H. Alam, K. Brasel, C. Hauser, M. D. de Moya, E. Moore, G. Vercruysse, K. Inaba   +9 more
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Gunshot Wounds to the Liver: No Longer a Mandatory Operation.

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2019
BACKGROUND Selective nonoperative management (SNOM) of gunshot wounds (GSWs) to the liver is a contemporary management strategy that remains controversial.
M. Schellenberg, E. Benjamin, A. Piccinini, K. Inaba, D. Demetriades   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Gunshot wounds to the colon: predictive risk factors for the development of postoperative complications, an experience of 172 cases in 4 years

ANZ journal of surgery, 2019
In our study, we have defined and evaluated risk factors for the development of post‐operative complications in patients with gunshot wounds to the colon. The purpose of the study is to identify the most influential risk factors.
O. Elfaedy, Khaled Elgazwi, Jamal Alsharif, S. Mansor   +3 more
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Gunshot wounds: A review of ballistics, bullets, weapons, and myths.

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2016
I the United States, someone experiences a gunshot wound every 4 minutes 44 seconds, and a person dies as a result each 16 minutes. Annually, this means that approximately 111,000 Americans are shot and 33,800 die as a result of these injuries, which ...
P. Rhee, E. Moore, B. Joseph, A. Tang, V. Pandit, G. Vercruysse   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Selective nonoperative management in 1106 patients with abdominal gunshot wounds: conclusions on safety, efficacy, and the role of selective CT imaging in a prospective single-center study.

Annals of Surgery, 2015
OBJECTIVE The primary aim of this study was to delineate the role of computed tomography (CT) in patients undergoing NOM for AGSW. BACKGROUND Nonoperative management (NOM) of abdominal gunshot wounds (AGSWs) remains controversial.
P. Navsaria, A. Nicol, S. Edu, R. Gandhi, C. Ball   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source