A singular buller run in a firearm wound. A case report

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Antonio Martino
Dino De Rienzo
Marco Evangelista
Francesco La Rocca
Gautam Maharajan
Giovanni Martino
Maria Lucia Sacco
Mariano Scaglione

Abstract

The paper deals with the peculiarities of a firearm wound regarding the dynamic of the accident and particularly considering the path followed by the bullet. The patient’s firearm wound is described on the basis of the instrumental examinations done. These last give us a precious help to confirm the thesis, already guessed on the clinical examination of an introduction and path followed through the digestive trait, and to show the dynamics and the still positions of the bullet inside the patient’s body. The bullet was expelled spontaneously by defecation. After control of no internal damages this firearm wound has been treated simply as a normal tip wound.

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Martino, Antonio, et al. “A Singular Buller Run in a Firearm Wound. A Case Report”. Annali Italiani Di Chirurgia, vol. 80, no. 2, Mar. 2009, pp. 145-9, https://annaliitalianidichirurgia.it/index.php/aic/article/view/1472.
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