The Tumbling Bullet: Subacute Intestinal Obstruction due to a Retained Bullet

A 29-year-old female presented with multiple gunshot wounds to the back and bilateral lower extremities. The patient underwent an exploratory laparotomy with small-bowel resection of two segments with primary stapled anastomosis and partial nephrectomy. The postoperative course showed prolonged inte...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Anupam K, Edwards, Blake
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
Materias:
General Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7497767/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32953351
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9844
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description A 29-year-old female presented with multiple gunshot wounds to the back and bilateral lower extremities. The patient underwent an exploratory laparotomy with small-bowel resection of two segments with primary stapled anastomosis and partial nephrectomy. The postoperative course showed prolonged intermittent bowel obstruction secondary to the bullet, which lodged in the distal ileum. The patient eventually passed the bullet; it, however, led to a delay in recovery.
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spelling pubmed-74977672020-09-18 The Tumbling Bullet: Subacute Intestinal Obstruction due to a Retained Bullet Gupta, Anupam K Edwards, Blake Cureus General Surgery A 29-year-old female presented with multiple gunshot wounds to the back and bilateral lower extremities. The patient underwent an exploratory laparotomy with small-bowel resection of two segments with primary stapled anastomosis and partial nephrectomy. The postoperative course showed prolonged intermittent bowel obstruction secondary to the bullet, which lodged in the distal ileum. The patient eventually passed the bullet; it, however, led to a delay in recovery. Cureus 2020-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7497767/ /pubmed/32953351 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9844 Text en Copyright © 2020, Gupta et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_fullStr The Tumbling Bullet: Subacute Intestinal Obstruction due to a Retained Bullet
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title_short The Tumbling Bullet: Subacute Intestinal Obstruction due to a Retained Bullet
title_sort tumbling bullet: subacute intestinal obstruction due to a retained bullet
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7497767/
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