Year: 1985
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: Multiple case reports of bullet emboli to the heart have been documented. A unique clinical situation is presented of a patient who sustained a shotgun injury to the buttock, with retained pellets, who 7 to 10 years later demonstrated intravascular migration of one of the pellets to the intracardiac position.
Source: Clinical Cardiology
Authors: B. Levi, C. R. Sainsbury, D. L. Scharf
Institution: Menorah Medical Center
Language: English
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1996598640