The Korean Journal of Critical Care Medicine  2013;28(4):340-343

doi:10.4266/kjccm.2013.28.4.340

Blunt Splenic Injury by Gunshot.

Young Hoon SUL 1 ; Sang Il LEE ; Kwang Sik CHEON ; Jae Young MOON ; Jun Wan LEE ; In Sang SONG

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Keywords

penetrating and blunt injury; shotgun; trauma

Country

Republic of Korea

Language

Korean

Abstract

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.