title: Bullet in the left ventricle from a remote gunshot wound to the heart.
abstract: A bullet was found at necropsy in the left ventricle of a man who died of carcinoma of the urinary bladder. The bullet had entered the body at an unknown time in the remote past. The bullet probably gained entrance to the heart through the left atrial wall and lodged in the left ventricle.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000209:etiology*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000150:complications*