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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
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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.

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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