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Case Report

“Luck’s Always to Blame”: Silent Wounds of a Penetrating Gunshot Trauma Sustained 20 Years Ago

by
Ioannis Tomos
*,
Effrosyni D. Manali
,
Stylianos Argentos
,
Thomas Raptakis
and
Spyros A. Papiris
IInd Pulmonary Department, “Attikon” University Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Rimini Street, Haidari, 12462 Athens, Greece
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Adv. Respir. Med. 2015, 83(5), 392-393; https://doi.org/10.5603/PiAP.2015.0063
Submission received: 16 June 2015 / Revised: 8 September 2015 / Accepted: 8 September 2015 / Published: 8 September 2015

Abstract

Gunshot tracheal injuries represent life-threatening events and usually necessitate emergent surgical intervention. We report a case of an exceptional finding of a patient with retained ballistic fragments in the soft tissues of the thorax, proximal to the right subclavian artery and the trachea, carrying silently his wounds for two decades without any medical or surgical intervention. The bullet pellet on the upper part of the trachea seen accidentally in the chest computed tomography, was also found during bronchoscopy. In short “luck’s always to blame”.
Keywords: gunshot injury; trauma; bronchoscopy gunshot injury; trauma; bronchoscopy

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Tomos, I.; Manali, E.D.; Argentos, S.; Raptakis, T.; Papiris, S.A. “Luck’s Always to Blame”: Silent Wounds of a Penetrating Gunshot Trauma Sustained 20 Years Ago. Adv. Respir. Med. 2015, 83, 392-393. https://doi.org/10.5603/PiAP.2015.0063

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Tomos I, Manali ED, Argentos S, Raptakis T, Papiris SA. “Luck’s Always to Blame”: Silent Wounds of a Penetrating Gunshot Trauma Sustained 20 Years Ago. Advances in Respiratory Medicine. 2015; 83(5):392-393. https://doi.org/10.5603/PiAP.2015.0063

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Tomos, Ioannis, Effrosyni D. Manali, Stylianos Argentos, Thomas Raptakis, and Spyros A. Papiris. 2015. "“Luck’s Always to Blame”: Silent Wounds of a Penetrating Gunshot Trauma Sustained 20 Years Ago" Advances in Respiratory Medicine 83, no. 5: 392-393. https://doi.org/10.5603/PiAP.2015.0063

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Tomos, I., Manali, E. D., Argentos, S., Raptakis, T., & Papiris, S. A. (2015). “Luck’s Always to Blame”: Silent Wounds of a Penetrating Gunshot Trauma Sustained 20 Years Ago. Advances in Respiratory Medicine, 83(5), 392-393. https://doi.org/10.5603/PiAP.2015.0063

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