Ballistic Reconstruction of a Migrating Bullet in the Parapharyngeal Space

A 21-year-old male suffering from severe throat pain after being hit by a bullet in Syria claimed that he was shot through his eye and that the bullet subsequently descended behind his throat. Even though the first medical report stated that this course is implausible, meticulous workup provided evi...

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Autores principales: Bächinger, David, Bolliger, Stephan, Huber, Gerhard F., Laske, Roman D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4685071/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26770857
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/245360
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author Bächinger, David
Bolliger, Stephan
Huber, Gerhard F.
Laske, Roman D.
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description A 21-year-old male suffering from severe throat pain after being hit by a bullet in Syria claimed that he was shot through his eye and that the bullet subsequently descended behind his throat. Even though the first medical report stated that this course is implausible, meticulous workup provided evidence that the bullet might have entered the parapharyngeal space in a more cranial position than the one it was found eight months later. Our case highlights that bullets are able to move within the body, rendering ballistic reconstruction difficult. However, after removal of the bullet the patient's symptoms completely resolved.
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spelling pubmed-46850712016-01-14 Ballistic Reconstruction of a Migrating Bullet in the Parapharyngeal Space Bächinger, David Bolliger, Stephan Huber, Gerhard F. Laske, Roman D. Case Rep Otolaryngol Case Report A 21-year-old male suffering from severe throat pain after being hit by a bullet in Syria claimed that he was shot through his eye and that the bullet subsequently descended behind his throat. Even though the first medical report stated that this course is implausible, meticulous workup provided evidence that the bullet might have entered the parapharyngeal space in a more cranial position than the one it was found eight months later. Our case highlights that bullets are able to move within the body, rendering ballistic reconstruction difficult. However, after removal of the bullet the patient's symptoms completely resolved. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4685071/ /pubmed/26770857 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/245360 Text en Copyright © 2015 David Bächinger et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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