Intrathoracic and intravascular migratory foreign bodies.
Intrathoracic and intravascular migratory foreign bodies are a small but distinctive subgroup of missile injuries. The intravascular bullet embolus can be treated like arterial or venous emboli of any other sort and removed as indicated. Wandering bullets in body cavities should be removed when they need to be, just like bullets imbedded in the body in a fixed position. And, contrary to the popular belief, very few bullets wander.
Van Way
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University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver.
D001808:Blood Vessels; D005547:Foreign Bodies; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration; D006801:Humans; D013909:Thorax; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot