• Injury · Jan 1992

    Plastic bullets: significant risk of serious injury above the diaphragm.

    • A J Ritchie.
    • Department of Surgery, Mater Infirmorum Hospital, Belfast, UK.
    • Injury. 1992 Jan 1;23(4):265-6.

    AbstractA series of 123 patients who attended a district general hospital in Belfast over a 14-year period from 1975, sustained 126 plastic bullet injuries, resulting in one death and several serious injuries. This report shows the significant association of serious injury and/or death from plastic bullets in which the impact is above diaphragmatic level.

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