Gunshot Wounds of the Female Breast
| Autor: | Hanzlick R, Renz Bm |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
medicine.medical_specialty integumentary system business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Medical examiner Abdominal Injuries General Medicine Surgery Clinical study medicine.anatomical_structure Female patient Humans Medicine Abdomen Inframammary fold Female Wounds Gunshot Breast Prospective Studies business |
| Zdroj: | Southern Medical Journal. 85:1072-1076 |
| ISSN: | 0038-4348 |
| Popis: | We report the results of a clinical study of female patients sustaining gunshot wounds to a breast. Thirteen homicides were reviewed by the Fulton County Medical Examiner. A prospective series of patients treated by the Grady Memorial Hospital Trauma Service included eight additional cases. Ten (48%) of the combined series of 21 patients had significant intra-abdominal injury; of these, five (24%) had injuries confined to the abdomen as a result of a missile striking a breast. A wound pattern consisting of a superior breast entrance wound, an inferior breast exit wound, and an inframammary thoracoabdominal reentry wound was noted in five patients, four of whom had intra-abdominal injuries and three only intra-abdominal injuries. Careful examination for this wound pattern should alert the clinician to the possibility of intra-abdominal injury. One should anticipate a 50% incidence of intra-abdominal injury in female patients sustaining gunshot wounds to a breast. |
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