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Intracranial migrating bullet.

Diyarbakir Military Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery, Diyarbakir, Turkey.
American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology (impact factor: 0.88). 10/2004; 25(3):246-50.
Source: PubMed

ABSTRACT Retained bullets and fragments following a civilian gunshot injury are quite frequent in practical neurosurgery. It is usually possible to extract the foreign body surgically, while rare cases are conservatively treated because of technical reasons. Conservative treatment may present complications, and a rare form of this presentation is migration of the bullet. A 20-year-old man presented with migrating bullet from a supratentorial to opposite infratentorial area. We consider that in the migrating bullet fragment cases, if there is no contraindication, the most reasonable treatment is its urgent surgical removal. This report reveals a supratentorial bullet migrating to the infratentorial contralateral area, and related literature considering the different mechanisms of migration is discussed.

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Keywords

civilian gunshot injury
 
Conservative treatment
 
contraindication
 
different mechanisms
 
foreign body surgically
 
infratentorial area
 
infratentorial contralateral area
 
practical neurosurgery
 
reasonable treatment
 
Retained bullets
 
supratentorial
 
supratentorial bullet migrating
 
urgent surgical removal
 

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