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Low-velocity, civilian firearm extremity injuries—review and update for radiologists
- Source :
- Skeletal Radiology. 51:1153-1171
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021.
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Abstract
- Firearm injuries are a preventable epidemic in the USA. Extremities are commonly affected in gunshot injuries. Such injuries may be complex with concomitant osseous, soft tissue, and neurovascular components. The maximum wounding potential of a projectile is determined by its kinetic energy and the proportion of the kinetic energy that is transmitted to the target. Accurate assessment of ballistic injuries is dependent on utilizing the principles of wound ballistics, accurate bullet count, and ballistic trajectory analysis. The goals of this article are to review wound ballistics and the imaging evaluation of extremity civilian firearm injuries in the adult population, with emphasis on ballistic trajectory analysis, specific ballistic fracture patterns, and diffuse, secondary soft tissue ballistic injuries.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Firearms
medicine.medical_specialty
Soft Tissue Injuries
Forensic Ballistics
Projectile
business.industry
Quantitative Biology::Tissues and Organs
Physics::Medical Physics
Adult population
Ballistics
Soft tissue
Extremities
Trajectory of a projectile
Condensed Matter::Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect
Neurovascular bundle
Wound ballistics
Quantitative Biology::Cell Behavior
Radiologists
Humans
Medicine
Wounds, Gunshot
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Radiology
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14322161 and 03642348
- Volume :
- 51
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Skeletal Radiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....29f5c2a7e0edc8725398e57140cf7486