Abstract:Head and neck injuries account for about 30% of all firearm injuries. In this article, we present a case of head and neck bullet injury in which a bullet directed towards the cervical vertebral body and it was placed in the second cervical vertebral canal considering the trajectory after entering the body. A 27-year-old male patient was referred to our emergency department due to lead. It was confirmed that the mass in the localization identified the x-ray was the bullet. Cervical computed tomography revealed … Show more
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