GUNSHOT WOUNDS OF THE UPPER EXTREMITIES

Abstract: Fracture Patterns Following Gunshot Wounds to the Upper Extremity

CONCLUSION: Thumb injuries from fireworks result from high-energy avulsion, hyperextension, and hyperabduction, frequently injuring the thumb, destabilizing the CMC joint, and seriously damaging the first webspace. The first webspace requires particular consideration as deep injury may result in adduction contracture and require secondary reconstruction with tissue outside the zone of injury if...

Gunshot Wounds

Firearm injuries are regarded as a special form of blunt trauma. The damage to the organism is caused by the impact of a single projectile (or a multitude of pellets) propelled from a barrel by high-pressure combustion gases and striking the body at a high velocity. Gunshot wounds, in a broader sense, are also lesions caused by blank-cartridge weapons as well as injuries due to livestock stunne...

Gunshot Wounds

[Gunshot wounds of the ureters].

Observations on Gunshot Wounds of the Extremities, Illustrated by a Case

Gtunshot wounds of the extremities, when complicated with compound fractures, and splintering of the bones, are justly regarded as most serious injuries, so much so, that the hope of saving a limb under such circumstances, is seldom entertained ; for, independent of the danger of mortification, which, in the first instance, is always to be apprehended, and the chance of the patient ultimately s...