title: Long asymptomatic survival with a bullet adjacent to the left main coronary artery, the only site of atherosclerotic plaque in the coronary tree.
authors.affiliation: Pathology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shirani
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Zafari
authors.forename: V E
authors.initials: VE
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Roberts
mesh_terms: D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D003331:Coronary Vessels; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010496:Pericardium / Q000473:pathology; D013997:Time Factors; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000453:epidemiology*