Acute and Critical Care

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; Korean J Crit Care Med. 2013;28(4):340-343.; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4266/kjccm.2013.28.4.340

Abstract PDF: 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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