PENETRATING STAB WOUNDS AND BULLET WOUNDS OF THE CHEST
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Penetrating Wounds of the Chest.
The immediate effects depend on the size, shape, type, velocity and track of the missile. A high velocity rifle or machine-gun bullet entering the chest through an intercostal space and making its way out through a posterior space may occasion, apart from the initial shock, little disability and with luck no complications. A small more slowly moving vulnerant may produce a punctured wound such ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Surgery
سال: 1933
ISSN: 0003-4932
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-193304000-00007