External iliac artery injury secondary to indirect pressure wave effect from gunshot wound

In patients presenting with gunshot wounds, a high clinical suspicion of injury to vasculature and viscera remote from the projectile track is paramount. We present a case of a 17 year old male who sustained a gunshot wound to his abdomen and subsequently developed a right external iliac artery cont...

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Autores principales: Ng, Eugene, Choong, Andrew MTL.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4908217/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27321290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cjtee.2016.01.013
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description In patients presenting with gunshot wounds, a high clinical suspicion of injury to vasculature and viscera remote from the projectile track is paramount. We present a case of a 17 year old male who sustained a gunshot wound to his abdomen and subsequently developed a right external iliac artery contusion requiring surgery as an indirect effect of the pressure wave from the bullet.
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spelling pubmed-49082172016-06-23 External iliac artery injury secondary to indirect pressure wave effect from gunshot wound Ng, Eugene Choong, Andrew MTL. Chin J Traumatol Case Report In patients presenting with gunshot wounds, a high clinical suspicion of injury to vasculature and viscera remote from the projectile track is paramount. We present a case of a 17 year old male who sustained a gunshot wound to his abdomen and subsequently developed a right external iliac artery contusion requiring surgery as an indirect effect of the pressure wave from the bullet. Elsevier 2016-06 2016-02-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4908217/ /pubmed/27321290 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cjtee.2016.01.013 Text en © 2016 Daping Hospital and the Research Institute of Surgery of the Third Military Medical University. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_full External iliac artery injury secondary to indirect pressure wave effect from gunshot wound
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title_short External iliac artery injury secondary to indirect pressure wave effect from gunshot wound
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4908217/
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