A 16-Year-Old Ukrainian Boy Shot at Close-Range to the Back of the Neck with a Handgun Who Required Surgical Removal of a 9×18-mm Bullet Shell from the Left Posterior Maxilla and Recovered Following Physical Therapy

Viktor Konoplitskyi; Dmytro Dmytriiev; Mykola Sidoryk; Oleksandr Dobrovanov; Marian Vidiscak

doi:10.12659/AJCR.939413

17 March 2023 : Case report Ukraine

A 16-Year-Old Ukrainian Boy Shot at Close-Range to the Back of the Neck with a Handgun Who Required Surgical Removal of a 9×18-mm Bullet Shell from the Left Posterior Maxilla and Recovered Following Physical Therapy

Challenging differential diagnosis, Diagnostic / therapeutic accidents, Management of emergency care, Rare disease, Clinical situation which can not be reproduced for ethical reasons

Viktor Konoplitskyi^1ABCDF, Dmytro Dmytriiev^1BCEG, Mykola Sidoryk^1CF, Oleksandr Dobrovanov^23AEFG*, Marian Vidiscak^2ACDG

DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.939413

Am J Case Rep 2023; 24:e939413

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Figure 1. A 16-year-old Ukrainian boy shot at close-range to the back of the neck with a handgun. (A) The entrance wound at the back of the neck is from a Makarov pistol and shows some tissue damage and blood clot. (B) A lateral X-ray of the head and neck shows the bullet trajectory and the location of the bullet lodged in the left pterygopalatine fossa, deep to the infratemporal fossa, and posterior to the maxilla. (C) The 9×18-mm bullet shell was removed, intact, following surgery.

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A 16-Year-Old Ukrainian Boy Shot at Close-Range to the Back of the Neck with a Handgun Who Required Surgical Removal of a 9×18-mm Bullet Shell from the Left Posterior Maxilla and Recovered Following Physical Therapy

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