Gunshot injury to the colon by expanding bullets in combat patients wounded in hybrid period of the Russian-Ukrainian war during 2014-2020.

BMC Surg · 2023 · PMC9883919 · PMID 36707838

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All 43 (100%) patients injured by hollow-point bullet injury had multiple wounds to the colon (2 or more defects), which is 3 times more frequent as compared to 22 (31.8%) patients injured by shape-stable bullets with borderline significance (p = 0.0488).

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