Shotgun wound to the leg: strategies in managing acute arterial injury and bullet emboli to the heart and lungs

BMJ Case Rep. 2017 Oct 20:2017:bcr2017222985. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2017-222985.

Authors

Evan Louis Honig¹, Ryan Fransman², Matthew Alvin³, Faris Azar²

Affiliations

¹ College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
² Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
³ Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: interventional radiology; radiology; surgery; trauma; vascular surgery.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Accidents
Adult
Femoral Artery / injuries*
Femoral Artery / surgery
Foreign Bodies
Humans
Male
Pulmonary Artery / injuries*
Pulmonary Artery / surgery
Pulmonary Embolism / diagnostic imaging
Pulmonary Embolism / physiopathology
Pulmonary Embolism / therapy*
Stents
Thigh / diagnostic imaging
Thigh / injuries*
Treatment Outcome
Vascular Surgical Procedures*
Vascular System Injuries / diagnostic imaging
Vascular System Injuries / physiopathology
Vascular System Injuries / surgery*
Wounds, Gunshot / complications*
Wounds, Gunshot / diagnostic imaging
Wounds, Gunshot / physiopathology
Wounds, Gunshot / surgery