Tracheal bullet excreted with stools: a rare course of events in airway gunshot injury
Keywords:
trachea, bullet, Spontaneous expectoration
Abstract
Over the past ten decades, only five cases have been published of firearm injuries of chest with conservative management, who in follow-up expectorated the bullet. We report first case in the history of gunshot injury chest, where bullet was found near posterior-lateral wall of trachea of the patient who eventually expectorated the bullet with subsequent ingestion and excretion with stools. We try to emphasize the role of repeat morning X-ray in these patients.
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2. Stancie C. Rhodes et al, Expectoration of a bullet after gunshot wound to the chest J Emerg Trauma Shock. 2013 Apr-Jun; 6(2): 135–137.
3. Leslie RM. Spontaneous evacuation of a shrapnel bullet in the lung by expectoration. Br Med J. 1917;2:648–9.
4. Andrews CM, Singh NN, Stewart RW. Bullet aspiration and spontaneous expectoration after gunshot wound to trachea. Mil Med. 2010;175:72–3.
5. Hesami SM, Johari HG. Spontaneous expectoration of an asymptomatic retained intrathoracic bullet. Injury. 2012;43:1219–21.
Published
2021-04-20
How to Cite
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Wani N ud din, Ganie FA, Zahoor D, Wani Y. Tracheal bullet excreted with stools: a rare course of events in airway gunshot injury. jms [Internet]. 2021Apr.20 [cited 2026Oct.3];24(1):38-0. Available from: https://old.jmsskims.org/index.php/jms/article/view/810
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Case Reports
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