Case report
Fracture of Collum Femoris Secondary to Gunshot Wound: A Lucky Patient Who Didn’t Have Any Additional Injury
1University of Health Sciences Turkey, İstanbul Okmeydanı Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of Orthopedic, İstanbul, Turkey
Eur Arch Med Res 2020; 36(1): 83-85 DOI: 10.4274/eamr.galenos.2018.87094
Abstract
Gunshot injuries are rising in most countries in the last decades. Gun shot wounds in extremities result complicated bone fractures and related complications like infection, nonunion, malunion. Also, vascular and nerve injuries result from gunshot wounds. We report the case report of a 32-years male who underwent gunshot to the proximal femur. He had only nondeplase collum femoris fracture which was treated succesfully without any complication. We think that it is a big chance for patient having this progress in this severe trauma.
Keywords: Gunshot wound, collum femoris fracture, chance