Retrograde venous bullet embolism: A rare occurrence - Case report and literature review

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 187-192

  Bertoldo, Ugo ^b   Enrichens, Francesco ^a   Comba, Andrea ^c   Ghiselli, Gianluca ^c   Vaccarisi, Sebastiane ^c   Ferraris, Marilena ^c  

^a Centro Traumatologico Ortopedico   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AXILLARY VEIN; BULLET; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EMBOLECTOMY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; ILIAC VEIN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; PHLEBOTOMY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMBOLISM; FOREIGN BODY; GUNSHOT INJURY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX INJURY;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMBOLISM; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; MALE; THORACIC INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 4043154128     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000135490.10227.5C     Document Type: Review

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