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Case Report Blunt Splenic Injury by Gunshot
Young Hoon Sul, Sang Il Lee, Kwang Sik Cheon, Jae Young Moon, Jun Wan Lee, In Sang Song

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4266/kjccm.2013.28.4.340
1Department of Surgery, Chungnam National University Hospital, Daejeon, Korea. songis@cnuh.co.kr
2Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Chungnam National University Hospital, Daejeon, Korea.
3Daejeon Regional Emergency Medical Center, Chungnam National University Hospital, Daejeon, Korea.
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Trauma is frequently not purely penetrating or purely blunt. Such mixed trauma can result from the mechanism of injury. Recently, we encountered a patient who accidentally shot himself with a shotgun. He had a 15 x 8-cm-sized penetrating injury on left flank that did not penetrate into the peritoneal cavity and a blunt splenic injury with hemoperitoneum. Surgical and interventional treatments were performed for each injury. We present this case with a review of the related literature.


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