Background: In Iraq penetrating injuries to the abdomen caused by firearm are more common than stab wounds with remarkable mortality and morbidity. Early recognition of immediate treatment mandatory in saving lives many those patients.
 Objective: To review presentation evaluate early post-operative morbidity abdominal bullet Baghdad teaching hospital.
 Patients Methods: This prospect...

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www.eymj.org We read with great interest the article of Byun, et al. entitled “Epidemiology of trauma patients and analysis of 268 mortality cases: trends of a single center in Korea”. The authors mentioned the blunt traumas in general. We would like to add one more information about penetrating trauma. Bullets damage the tissue with a sudden mechanical force to a localized area and with shock ...

Gunshot wound (GSW) to the spine which was earlier common in the military population is now being increasingly noted in civilians due to easy availability of firearms of low velocity either licensed or illegal combined with an increased rate of violence in the society. Contributing to 13% to 17% of all spinal injuries, the management of complex injury to the spine produced by a GSW remains cont...

One approach to locate the point of fire of a supersonic bullet is to first estimate the trajectory of the bullet and then trace the trajectory back to topographic or man-made obstructions on a digital map. The supersonic flight of a bullet generates a ballistic shock wave, and the trajectory of the bullet can be estimated by measuring the time delay between the shock wave arrivals at each sens...

Intraorbital foreign body (IOFB) has been a rare phenomenon in the cases of gunshot wounds and always represents a dilemma in medical management. In Sabah, this scenario is becoming common as there is still certain population in the interiors who owns self made guns for hunting. They either present with self inflicted gunshot injuries or after being mistakenly shot while hunting. There are very...

During a 15-year period from August 1964 to August 1979, 48 patients with gunshot wound of the esophagus (24 of the cervical, 17 of the thoracic, and seven of the abdominal) were treated at Grady Memorial Hospital. In the majority of the patients, the initial history, physical findings, and chest roentgenograms were nondiagnostic for esophageal injury. Esophageal perforation was mainly suspecte...

The most common ballistic materials available in the urban setting were studied for their MR effects on deflection force, rotation, heating, and imaging artifacts at 1.5 T to determine the potential efficacy and safety for imaging patients with ballistic injuries. The 28 missiles tested covered the range of bullet types and materials suggested by the Cleveland Police Department. The deflection ...

The vast majority of combat-related penetrating spinal injuries from gunshot wounds result in severe or complete neurological deficit. Treatment is based on neurological status, the presence of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) fistulas, and local effects of any retained fragment(s). We present a case of a 46-year-old male who sustained a spinal gunshot injury from a 7.62-mm AK-47 round that became lod...