“…In civil trauma, 80% of the causes are caused by low-caliber bullets, with low speed [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] . In case of acute arterial ischemia in a patient with trauma caused by firearm, the possibility of embolism caused by a projectile should be taken into account when it is not possible to visualize an exit hole, when the signs and symptoms are different from those expected due to lesions in organs that are in the supposed path of the projectile, and when the projectile is not visualized in imaging examinations 8,9,15 -considering that most arterial injuries caused by firearm are owed to lesions in the arterial wall, directly or indirectly.…”