Skeletal Sarcoma on the Site of Retained War Bullet Fragments and a Literature Review on Long-term Complications of Retained War Shells

Overview

Journal Arch Bone Jt Surg

Date 2014 Sep 11

PMID 25207300

Citations 4

Authors

Mohammad H Ebrahimzadeh

Ehsan Vahedi

Rashid Ganji

Shahram Bozorgnia

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Abstract

Long-term complications of retained war fragments in the body are not completely known. Also, bullet migration and slow resorption of metals and distortion in some imaging modalities are frequent and well recognized complications but, now we are concerned about neoplastic changes near the retained war fragments. We reviewed the literature on complication of retained war fragments and report our 2 cases of malignant changes around old retained war fragments in the limbs.

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