Migrated bullet in the bladder presenting 18 years after a gunshot wound

Gunshot wounds to the genitourinary system are relatively rare, and it is even rarer a retained bullet migrates into the urinary tract. We describe a case where the bullet migrated into the bladder and formed a bladder stone eighteen years after the injury. This presentation is unique as it is one o...

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Autores principales: Marantidis, Joanna, Biggs, Grace
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Trauma and Reconstruction
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6838796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31720229
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2019.101016
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description Gunshot wounds to the genitourinary system are relatively rare, and it is even rarer a retained bullet migrates into the urinary tract. We describe a case where the bullet migrated into the bladder and formed a bladder stone eighteen years after the injury. This presentation is unique as it is one of the longest times from gunshot wound to presentation in the current literature.
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spelling pubmed-68387962019-11-12 Migrated bullet in the bladder presenting 18 years after a gunshot wound Marantidis, Joanna Biggs, Grace Urol Case Rep Trauma and Reconstruction Gunshot wounds to the genitourinary system are relatively rare, and it is even rarer a retained bullet migrates into the urinary tract. We describe a case where the bullet migrated into the bladder and formed a bladder stone eighteen years after the injury. This presentation is unique as it is one of the longest times from gunshot wound to presentation in the current literature. Elsevier 2019-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6838796/ /pubmed/31720229 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2019.101016 Text en © 2019 The Authors 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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Migrated bullet in the bladder presenting 18 years after a gunshot wound
title Migrated bullet in the bladder presenting 18 years after a gunshot wound
title_full Migrated bullet in the bladder presenting 18 years after a gunshot wound
title_fullStr Migrated bullet in the bladder presenting 18 years after a gunshot wound
title_full_unstemmed Migrated bullet in the bladder presenting 18 years after a gunshot wound
title_short Migrated bullet in the bladder presenting 18 years after a gunshot wound
title_sort migrated bullet in the bladder presenting 18 years after a gunshot wound
topic Trauma and Reconstruction
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6838796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31720229
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2019.101016
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