Foreign body in the tongue as a result of accidental gunshot from hunting rifle

Ratajek-Gruda Monika, Strzelczyk-Sikorska Olga, Janas-Naze Anna. Foreign body in the tongue as a result of accidental gunshot from hunting rifle. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2019;9(4):276-282. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2635859 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/6811 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2019; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 28.03.2019. Revised: 30.03.2019. Accepted: 11.04.2019. FOREIGN BODY IN THE TONGUE AS A RESULT OF ACCIDENTAL GUNSHOT FROM HUNTING RIFLE Monika Ratajek-Gruda PhD, Olga Strzelczyk-Sikorska, Anna Janas-Naze PhD. Assoc. Prof. Monika Ratajek-Gruda ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9066-174X email:mogruda@wp.pl Olga Strzelczyk-Sikorska ORCID ID:0000-0001-9114-4621 Anna Janas- Naze ORCID ID:0000-0001-6885-4457 Department of the Oral Surgery, Central Clinical Hospital, Medical University of Lodz Head of the Department: Anna Janas- Naze, PhD, Assoc. Prof. Corresponding author: Monika Ratajek-Gruda Department of Oral Surgery, Medical University of Lodz 92-213 Łódź, ul. Pomorska 251, tel. 42 675 75 29 The article was financed by Medical University of Lodz as a part or statutory activity nr 503/2-163-01/503/01 Abstract: Gunshots are one of the many causes of urgent admission of patients due to necessity of removing foreign bodies and bleeding control. A 63 y.o. patient was referred to the Department of Oral Surgery due to an accidental gunshot, which occurred in early adolescence and caused numerous post-gunshot injuries. The decision to waive surgical removal of foreign body was dictated by major risk of complications, such as: major bleeding from tongue vessels and probability of function loss. Also the lack of symptoms sustained such decision. Patient was informed about the necessity of performing the surgery in case of any pain, inflammation or necessity of proper interpretation of radiological examination (CT, MRI). Key words: foreign body, OPG, CBCT, gunshot woun