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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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Autores principales: Ong, Danier, Joshi, Parth M, Zehfus, Holly, Havens, Timothy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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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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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.
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title_short Follow the Shoestring: A Unique Case of Bullet Extraction
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8177025/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14862
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