Open AccessSpontaneous endobroncheal erosion of a bullet - an uncommon presentation of gunshot trauma in remote past
Author(s) -
Muhammad Nabi,
Kamran Khalid Chima,
Saeed Ashraf Cheema
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
annals of king edward medical university
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2079-7192
pISSN - 2079-0694
DOI - 10.21649/akemu.v11i3.1042
Subject(s) - medicine , thoracotomy , foreign body , gunshot wound , presentation (obstetrics) , surgery , tuberculosis , radiology , lung , general surgery , pathology
A case of unknown bullet trauma to the lung, in remote past, presented with hemoptysis which was mislabeled as hematemesis. Once labeled, a number of physicians, one after the other, kept on treating her for that symptom. She also consulted a number of specialties and was treated for reflux esophagitis, tuberculosis etc. Meanwhile her x-ray chest revealed a foreign body which was treated as an artifact first, and proved to be a bullet on CT scan. Thoracotomy had to be performed to remove the pathologic right lower lobe of lung.