Three Cases of Gunshot Wounds

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

Cases of Gunshot Wounds Treated in Divisional Field Hospital, Kabul

2.?Pte. H. Bullet entered right arm posterior to deltoid insertion and emerged after a course of two inches. A simple flesh wound. Patient recovered rapidly. B. 1.?Pte. W. Bullet entered immediately to left of 10th dorsal spine, and was extracted at the lower border of ri?ht axilla just below seventh rib. In this case the wound was followed by haemoptysis, and other symptoms of wound of the lun...

Cranio-cerebral gunshot wounds

Cranio-cerebral gunshots wounds (CCGW) are the most devastating injuries to the central nervous system, especially made by high velocity bullets, the most devastating, severe and usually fatal type of missile injury to the head. Objective: To investigate and compare, using a retrospective study on five cases the clinical outcomes of CCGW. Predictors of poor outcome were: older age, delayed mode...

Gunshot Wounds of Peripheral Nerves

Injuries of peripheral nerves occur in wounds due to Projectiles of high velocity with great frequency, and their successful treatment is of the highest importance in the prevention of permanent disabilities of the most serious kind.. It may be said at once that we are not yet in a position to make positive statements as to what the ultimate results of nerve injuries and the operations undertak...