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Bullet in hip joint
Ibrahim Kaya1, Akin Ugras1, Necdet Saglam2
1Clinic of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Haseki Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey.
The Eurasian Journal of Medicine
|January 23, 2015
Abstract:
Recently, hip arthroscopy has become more popular in the diagnosis and extraction of intraarticular foreign bodies compared to open surgery. If a foreign object such as a bullet is not extracted from the hip joint, it may cause mechanical arthritis, infection and systemic lead toxicity. We present the arthroscopic excision of a bullet from the hip joint of a 33-year-old male patient who sustained a gunshot injury.