A case occurs where a bullet hits the silicone resin for breast augmentation and the life of a woman is saved
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Life-Saving Silicone Breast Implant After Firearm Injury: Case Report and Treatment Recommendations-Giancarlo McEvenue, Anastasia Oikonomou, Noah Ditkofsky, Joan Lipa, 2020
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2513826X19898821
Woman's Breast Implant Saved Her Life by Deflecting a Bullet, Case Study Shows
https://www.sciencealert.com/woman-s-life-saved-after-her-breast-implant-deflects-bullet-study-suggests
This incident occurred in Ontario, Canada. The details of the incident are unknown because no criminal was found, but the victim himself said, 'I felt fever and pain in my left chest while walking on the street, and I could see blood flowing, so I went to the emergency hospital on my own.' Testimony. Laboratory tests performed at this emergency hospital confirmed a bullet hole in the upper left nipple.
The skin around the hole was burned, suggesting that the burn was caused by a flame (muzzle flash) emanating from the muzzle, ie the bullet was fired at a very close range. As a result of palpation, a bullet-like mass could be confirmed under the skin on the right chest side, which is the opposite of the left chest side where bullet holes were present.
Below is a radiograph of the victim's chest. You can clearly see that the shadow on the right side of the chest is the bullet itself. Since a gas-like trajectory is left from the bullet hole on the left chest to the right chest, 'the bullet incident from the upper left nipple was deflected by the silicone resin, passed through the body, and stopped on the right chest.' It was estimated. In addition, X-ray revealed that the ribs had fractured and lung contusion occurred, but there was no damage in the chest cavity .
The surgical procedure performed removed the silicone resin from both chests and removed the bullets. Below is the silicone resin on the right chest side. Bullet passage marks are left. According to the police investigation, the bullet that was extracted was a 40-caliber bullet with a copper instep.
After successful surgery, the team analyzed 'how the bullet passed through the chest silicone' based on CT scans and clinical evidence. As a result, it turned out that 'if the silicon resin on the left chest did not deflect the bullet, the bullet may have passed directly through the chest wall and hit the heart directly.' The team said that the fact that the left sternum had no fractures and the right sternum had a fracture suggested that the bullet had sufficient energy at the time of impact. Can only be attributed to the bullet hitting the implant. '
A study on the impact of implants in the breast on bullets was conducted in 2017, and the conclusion was that 'silicone resin reduces bullet penetration distance by about 20%'. According to a study by the American Academy of Plastic Surgery, more than 290,000 women underwent breast augmentation surgery in 2016, suggesting that millions of women in the United States may have silicone resin buried in their chests. The research team pointed out that there is. Considering the large number of gun crimes in the United States, the research team thought that there were many cases where 'bullets hit the silicone resin', but only 2 cases similar to this case were reported before this incident I didn't.
Dr. Giancarlo McEvenue, who reported this case, commented, “The patient was completely cured with only a small amount of trauma. Unfortunately, it was a happy ending.”
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