• Ulus Travma Acil Cer · Nov 2021

    Case Reports

    Spinal cord contusion and paraplegia resulting from indirect gunshot injury.

    • Chen-Wei Wu, Chien-Chin Hsu, and Kuo-Tai Chen.
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
    • Ulus Travma Acil Cer. 2021 Nov 1; 27 (6): 702-705.

    AbstractEmergency physicians may overlook spinal cord injury in patients when the direct impact of a gunshot on the spine is lacking. A 30-year-old man who was shot on his right chest wall was brought to the emergency department. He arrived in a state of shock and underwent emergent thoracotomy for massive hemothorax. After surgery, he was found to be paraplegic. Magnetic resonance imaging of the spine showed T4 spinal cord contusion. The penetrating bullet dissipates energy to the surrounding tissue and contuses the spinal cord. Another assumption of the spinal cord injury is the impairment of blood supply to the cord. No effective treatment exists for gunshot-related indirect injury to the spinal cord. These reported cases reminded emergency physicians that after stabilization of the patient with a gunshot wound, a complete neurologic examination should be performed to discover occult spinal cord injury.

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