Affiliation:
1. Department of Surgery, Tygerberg Hospital, University of Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa
Abstract
Penetrating abdominal injuries, especially from gun shot wounds, are a common occurrence in South African hospitals, and a vast majority of these patient receive surgical intervention for suspected intra-abdominal injuries. Not all bullets are found and removed however, and we detail the case of a gentleman who presented to our institution with obstructive jaundice secondary to an extraluminal compression of his biliary tree by a retained migrated bullet, that spontaneously resolved, without any surgical intervention.
Subject
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine,Emergency Medicine,Surgery