A Tumor-Like Lump in the Palm Caused by an Inconspicuous-for 75 Years-Bullet

CASE: An unusual case of a foreign body in the hand is described here. Excision of a tumor-like soft tissue mass revealed a 75-year-old World War II bullet fragment of which patient was unaware. CONCLUSION: Differential diagnosis of hand lumps and inflammatory reaction must always include retained f...

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Autores principales: Athanaselis, Efstratios D., Fyllos, Apostolos, Stefanou, Nikolaos, Varitimidis, Socrates E., Giannikas, Dimitrios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7368181/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32695542
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8898016
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author Athanaselis, Efstratios D.
Fyllos, Apostolos
Stefanou, Nikolaos
Varitimidis, Socrates E.
Giannikas, Dimitrios
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description CASE: An unusual case of a foreign body in the hand is described here. Excision of a tumor-like soft tissue mass revealed a 75-year-old World War II bullet fragment of which patient was unaware. CONCLUSION: Differential diagnosis of hand lumps and inflammatory reaction must always include retained foreign bodies even after a very long period of posttraumatic quiescence or patient's inability to provide a relative injury case history.
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spelling pubmed-73681812020-07-20 A Tumor-Like Lump in the Palm Caused by an Inconspicuous-for 75 Years-Bullet Athanaselis, Efstratios D. Fyllos, Apostolos Stefanou, Nikolaos Varitimidis, Socrates E. Giannikas, Dimitrios Case Rep Orthop Case Report CASE: An unusual case of a foreign body in the hand is described here. Excision of a tumor-like soft tissue mass revealed a 75-year-old World War II bullet fragment of which patient was unaware. CONCLUSION: Differential diagnosis of hand lumps and inflammatory reaction must always include retained foreign bodies even after a very long period of posttraumatic quiescence or patient's inability to provide a relative injury case history. Hindawi 2020-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7368181/ /pubmed/32695542 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8898016 Text en Copyright © 2020 Efstratios D. Athanaselis et al. http://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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Athanaselis, Efstratios D.
Fyllos, Apostolos
Stefanou, Nikolaos
Varitimidis, Socrates E.
Giannikas, Dimitrios
A Tumor-Like Lump in the Palm Caused by an Inconspicuous-for 75 Years-Bullet
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title_full A Tumor-Like Lump in the Palm Caused by an Inconspicuous-for 75 Years-Bullet
title_fullStr A Tumor-Like Lump in the Palm Caused by an Inconspicuous-for 75 Years-Bullet
title_full_unstemmed A Tumor-Like Lump in the Palm Caused by an Inconspicuous-for 75 Years-Bullet
title_short A Tumor-Like Lump in the Palm Caused by an Inconspicuous-for 75 Years-Bullet
title_sort tumor-like lump in the palm caused by an inconspicuous-for 75 years-bullet
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7368181/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32695542
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8898016
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