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Tracheal bullet excreted with the stool: a rare course of events in airway gunshot injury

Egyptian Journal of Bronchology volume 13, pages 786–787 (2019)Cite this article

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Over the past 10 decades, only five cases have been published of firearm injuries of the chest with conservative management, who in the follow-up expectorated the bullet. We report the first case in the history of gunshot injury chest, where a bullet was found near the posterior-lateral wall of the 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 radiograph in these patients.

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  1. Department of CVTS, Superspeciality hospital, Shireen Bagh, KaraNagar, Srinagar, 190010, J&K, India

    Nasir U. Din Wani MBBS, MD, MCh, Tasneem Muzaffar & Syed A. Hussain

  2. Department of Paediatrics, DHS, India

    Yasir Wani

  3. Department of Microbiology, RNTCP, SKIMS, India

    Danish Zahoor

  4. Department of health Services, RNTCP, SKIMS, India

    Aaliya Wani

  5. Department of Anaesthesia, GMC, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Farhana Bashir

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Din Wani, N.U., Muzaffar, T., Hussain, S.A. et al. Tracheal bullet excreted with the stool: a rare course of events in airway gunshot injury. Egypt J Bronchol 13, 786–787 (2019). https://doi.org/10.4103/ejb.ejb_17_19

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