Bone-Penetrating TASER Bolt: A Rare Case of Penetrating Injury to the Middle Phalanx of the Little Finger

TASER(©) (Axon Enterprise, Scottsdale, Arizona) is a type of electric gun that delivers a sudden shock to temporarily disable a human subject. It is used by law enforcement, as well as civilians, worldwide. Despite its wide use as a “non-lethal” form of self-defence, it can lead to serious injuries....

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Autores principales: Abdelaty, Mohamed, Kandil, Mahmoud A, Walsh, Karl
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Plastic Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8665366/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34912604
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19461
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description TASER(©) (Axon Enterprise, Scottsdale, Arizona) is a type of electric gun that delivers a sudden shock to temporarily disable a human subject. It is used by law enforcement, as well as civilians, worldwide. Despite its wide use as a “non-lethal” form of self-defence, it can lead to serious injuries. We are presenting a rare case report of a 28-year-old man who presented to our Plastic Surgery Trauma Service following a penetrating TASER bolt injury to the middle phalanx of his left little finger.
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spelling pubmed-86653662021-12-14 Bone-Penetrating TASER Bolt: A Rare Case of Penetrating Injury to the Middle Phalanx of the Little Finger Abdelaty, Mohamed Kandil, Mahmoud A Walsh, Karl Cureus Plastic Surgery TASER(©) (Axon Enterprise, Scottsdale, Arizona) is a type of electric gun that delivers a sudden shock to temporarily disable a human subject. It is used by law enforcement, as well as civilians, worldwide. Despite its wide use as a “non-lethal” form of self-defence, it can lead to serious injuries. We are presenting a rare case report of a 28-year-old man who presented to our Plastic Surgery Trauma Service following a penetrating TASER bolt injury to the middle phalanx of his left little finger. Cureus 2021-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8665366/ /pubmed/34912604 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19461 Text en Copyright © 2021, Abdelaty 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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Bone-Penetrating TASER Bolt: A Rare Case of Penetrating Injury to the Middle Phalanx of the Little Finger
title Bone-Penetrating TASER Bolt: A Rare Case of Penetrating Injury to the Middle Phalanx of the Little Finger
title_full Bone-Penetrating TASER Bolt: A Rare Case of Penetrating Injury to the Middle Phalanx of the Little Finger
title_fullStr Bone-Penetrating TASER Bolt: A Rare Case of Penetrating Injury to the Middle Phalanx of the Little Finger
title_full_unstemmed Bone-Penetrating TASER Bolt: A Rare Case of Penetrating Injury to the Middle Phalanx of the Little Finger
title_short Bone-Penetrating TASER Bolt: A Rare Case of Penetrating Injury to the Middle Phalanx of the Little Finger
title_sort bone-penetrating taser bolt: a rare case of penetrating injury to the middle phalanx of the little finger
topic Plastic Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8665366/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19461
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