Cystoscopic removal of a large-caliber bullet from the left ureter: A case report of missile migration after a gunshot wound

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1141-1143

  Miller, Jonathan T ^a   Scheidler, Michael G ^a   Miller, Ralph ^a   Rodriguez, Aurelio ^a  

^a ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CYSTOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; MISSILE WOUND; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FISTULA; FOREIGN BODY; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; PANCREAS DISEASE; PNEUMOTHORAX; SKIN FISTULA; STENT; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; THORAX INJURY; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; TUBE; URETER; UROGRAPHY; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ADULT; CHEST TUBES; CUTANEOUS FISTULA; CYSTOSCOPY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FISTULA; DRAINAGE; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; MALE; PANCREATIC DISEASES; PARENTERAL NUTRITION, TOTAL; PNEUMOTHORAX; STENTS; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; THORACIC INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URETER; UROGRAPHY; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 2942735202     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000037288.55775.1D     Document Type: Article

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