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Follow the Shoestring: A Unique Case of Bullet Extraction
Firearm-related injuries and deaths remain a major issue in the United States. Gunshot injuries to the foot can be particularly difficult to manage when they occur as they can cause fractures or devastating neurovascular damage. There are limited reasons for routine bullet removal in most cases. Acu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8177025/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34113500 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14862 |
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author | Ong, Danier Joshi, Parth M Zehfus, Holly Havens, Timothy |
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description | Firearm-related injuries and deaths remain a major issue in the United States. Gunshot injuries to the foot can be particularly difficult to manage when they occur as they can cause fractures or devastating neurovascular damage. There are limited reasons for routine bullet removal in most cases. Acute indications include wounds involving joints, palms, and soles as well as increased risk of infection, persistent pain, and lead intoxication. Here, we bring attention to a case of a gunshot wound to the left foot of a 53-year-old male, in which the bullet was able to be extracted using a shoe fiber that had become wrapped around the bullet. |
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spelling | pubmed-81770252021-06-09 Follow the Shoestring: A Unique Case of Bullet Extraction Ong, Danier Joshi, Parth M Zehfus, Holly Havens, Timothy Cureus Emergency Medicine Firearm-related injuries and deaths remain a major issue in the United States. Gunshot injuries to the foot can be particularly difficult to manage when they occur as they can cause fractures or devastating neurovascular damage. There are limited reasons for routine bullet removal in most cases. Acute indications include wounds involving joints, palms, and soles as well as increased risk of infection, persistent pain, and lead intoxication. Here, we bring attention to a case of a gunshot wound to the left foot of a 53-year-old male, in which the bullet was able to be extracted using a shoe fiber that had become wrapped around the bullet. Cureus 2021-05-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8177025/ /pubmed/34113500 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14862 Text en Copyright © 2021, Ong 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. |
spellingShingle | Emergency Medicine Ong, Danier Joshi, Parth M Zehfus, Holly Havens, Timothy Follow the Shoestring: A Unique Case of Bullet Extraction |
title | Follow the Shoestring: A Unique Case of Bullet Extraction |
title_full | Follow the Shoestring: A Unique Case of Bullet Extraction |
title_fullStr | Follow the Shoestring: A Unique Case of Bullet Extraction |
title_full_unstemmed | Follow the Shoestring: A Unique Case of Bullet Extraction |
title_short | Follow the Shoestring: A Unique Case of Bullet Extraction |
title_sort | follow the shoestring: a unique case of bullet extraction |
topic | Emergency Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8177025/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34113500 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14862 |
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