Gunshot injury: bullet in spinal canal

Case contributed by Alexandra Stanislavsky , 13 Mar 2011
Diagnosis certain
Changed by Sachi Hapugoda, 23 May 2017

Updates to Study Attributes

Findings was changed:

Selected CT images showing the bullet in the spinal canal. The trajectory of the bullet had fractured a rib on the right and resulted in a pulmonary haemorrhage and haemopneumothorax. 

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