Gunshot wound of the main pulmonary artery: A case report

Case of Gunshot Wound

Pulmonary artery bullet injury following thoracic gunshot wound.

Thoracic trauma occurs frequently but seldom requires surgery (10-20%, [1]). The mortality rate for gunshot wound of the chest varies from 14.3 to 36.8% [2]. We report, herein an example of bullet injury to the pulmonary artery (PA) following a thoracic gunshot wound. This patient had previous history of coronary surgery. Absolute and relative indications for exploratory thoracotomy in emergenc...

Pulmonary Gunshot Wound Revealing Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Pulmonary tuberculosis is a major flail of mankind, 1/3 of the world population is infected. In Morocco, the incidence is estimated by the Word Health Organization to 89 cases per 100 000 inhabitants. However, gunshot assaults are rare. Many circumstances of discovery of tuberculosis were described. We present the case of an incidental finding of pulmonary tuberculosis in a young patient victim...

Abdominal gunshot wound in pregnant woman: a case report

Objective: A case which was injured during the civil war in Syria and had intrauterine penetrating ankle trauma was presented. Case: Twenty-year-old pregnant woman who was at 37 weeks of gestation and had abdominal gunshot wound was reached to Turkey border through their own means and brought to the emergency service of our hospital by Turkish ambulance. Upon the detection of intraabdominal ble...

Gunshot wound to the pregnant uterus: case report.

Crime and violence have become a public health problem. Pregnant women have not been the exception and gunshot injuries occupy an important place as a cause of trauma. An important fact is that pregnant women, who suffer trauma, are special patients because pregnancy causes physiological and anatomical changes. Management of these patients should be multidisciplinary, by the general surgeon, th...