title: A Fortunate Story of an Unusual AK-47 Bullet Trajectory: Always Keep a Smartphone in Your Pocket.
abstract: This is a report of a fortunate story of an unusual AK-47 bullet trajectory which took place during the Paris (France) attack of November 13th, 2015. A young man, trying to protect his girlfriend, interfered between her and a shooter. He had been wounded in the posterior compartment of the thigh. The bullet penetrated him and, instead of exiting, rebound against his Smartphone, which was in the front pocket of his pants. Thanks to that, the missile bullet did not injure his girlfriend but ended its trajectory in the fat tissue of his thigh. Thabouillot O , Perrier P , Roche NC , Agard D , Barbier O , Martin G , Viant E , Leclere JB . A fortunate story of an unusual AK-47 bullet trajectory: always keep a Smartphone in your pocket. Prehosp Disaster Med, 2016;31(3):343-345.
authors.affiliation: 1Emergency Department,Louis-Jacques Bégin Military Hospital,St Mandé-Paris,France.
authors.forename: Oscar
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Thabouillot
authors.affiliation: 1Emergency Department,Louis-Jacques Bégin Military Hospital,St Mandé-Paris,France.
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Perrier
authors.affiliation: 3Cardiology Department,Louis-Jacques Bégin Military Hospital,St Mandé-Paris,France.
authors.forename: Nicolas-Charles
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Roche
authors.affiliation: 2French Military Health Service Academy - Ecole du Val de Grâce,Paris,France.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Agard
authors.affiliation: 4Orthopedic and Traumatologic Surgery,Louis-Jacques Bégin Military Hospital,St Mandé-Paris,France.
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Barbier
authors.affiliation: 1Emergency Department,Louis-Jacques Bégin Military Hospital,St Mandé-Paris,France.
authors.forename: Guillaume
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.affiliation: 1Emergency Department,Louis-Jacques Bégin Military Hospital,St Mandé-Paris,France.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Viant
authors.affiliation: 2French Military Health Service Academy - Ecole du Val de Grâce,Paris,France.
authors.forename: Jean-Baptiste
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Leclere
mesh_terms: D005389:Firearms; D006801:Humans; D010297:Paris; D000068997:Smartphone; D023481:Terrorism; D013848:Thigh; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000517:prevention & control*
keywords: rifles; terrorism; wound ballistics