Shotgun wound management: A comparison of slug and pellet injuries

Wisconsin Medical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 40-43

  Davis, Clark A ^a   Cogbill, Thomas H ^a   Lambert, Pamela J ^a  

^a GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED STATES; WOUND CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; FIREARMS; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WISCONSIN; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0031761164     PISSN: 00436542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Dodge GG, Cogbill TH, Miller GJ, et al. Gunshot wounds: 10-Year Experience of a Rural Referral Trauma Center. Am Surg 1994;60:401.
2. Shepard GH. High-energy, low-velocity close range shotgun wounds. J Trauma 1980;20:1065.
3. Petty CS, Hauser JE. Rifled shotgun slugs: Wounding and forensic ballistics. J Forensic Sci 1968;13:114.
4. Ledgerwood AM. The management of shotgun wounds. Surg Clin North Am 1977;57:111.
5. Ordog GJ, Wasserberger J, Balasubramaniam S. Shotgun wound ballistics. J Trauma 1988;28:624.
6. Wilson J. Wound ballistics (Trauma rounds). West J Med 1977;49:127.
7. Roberts RM, String ST. Arterial injuries in extremity shotgun wounds: Requisite factors for successful management. Surgery 1984;96:902.
8. Deitch EA, Grimes WR. Experience with 112 shotgun wounds of the extremities. J Trauma 1984;24:600.
9. Bender JS, Hoekstra SM, Levison MA. Improving outcome from extremity shotgun injury. Am Surg 1993;59:359.
10. Hoekstra SM, Bender JS, Levison MA. The management of large soft tissue defects following close-range shotgun injury. J Trauma 1990;130:1489.
11. Sherman RT, Parrish RA. Management of shotgun injuries: A review of 152 cases. J Trauma 1963;3:76.
12. Gestring ML, Geller ER, Akkad N, et al. Shotgun slug injuries: Case report and literature review. J Trauma 1996; 40:650.
13. Raju S. Shotgun arterial injuries of the extremities. Am J Surg 1979;138:421.
14. Meyer JP, Lim LT, Schuler JJ, et al. Peripheral vascular trauma from close range shotgun injuries. Arch Surg 1985; 120:1126.
15. Frykberg ER, Crump JM, Vines FS, et al. A reassessment of the role of arteriography in penetrating proximity extremity trauma: A prospective study. J Trauma 1989; 29:1041.
16. Ordog GJ, Albin D, Weisenberger J. Shotgun "birdshot" wounds to the neck. J Trauma 1988; 28:491.
17. Flint LM, Cryer HM, Howard DA, et al. Approaches to the management of shotgun injuries. J Trauma 1984; 24:415.
18. Cogbill TH, Sullivan HG. Carotid artery pseudoaneurysm and pellet embolism to the middle cerebral artery following a shotgun wound of the neck. J Trauma 1995; 39:763.
19. Bongard F, Johs SM, Leighton TA, et al. Peripheral arterial shotgun emboli: Diagnostic and therapeutic management -case reports. J Trauma 1991; 31:1426.