Open AccessBullet in Hip Joint
Author(s) -
İbrahim Kaya,
Ali Akın Uğraş,
N. Saglam,
İbrahim Sungur,
Ercan Çetinus
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
eurasian journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.337
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1308-8742
pISSN - 1308-8734
DOI - 10.5152/eajm.2013.29
Subject(s) - medicine , surgery , hip arthroscopy , foreign bodies , gunshot injury , gunshot wound , arthroscopy
Recently, hip arthroscopy has become more popular in the diagnosis and extraction of intraarticular foreign bodies compared to open surgery. If a foreign object such as a bullet is not extracted from the hip joint, it may cause mechanical arthritis, infection and systemic lead toxicity. We present the arthroscopic excision of a bullet from the hip joint of a 33-year-old male patient who sustained a gunshot injury.
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