Abstract
A 34-year-old woman was admitted to our institution after attempted murder with a pellet shotgun. At arrival, the patient was haemodynamically unstable with many wounds in the anterior region of thorax, legs, and arms due to pellets. Computed tomography detected numerous foreign bodies in subcutaneous cellular tissue, thorax wall, prosthetic breast, lungs, liver, right arm, and proximal left thigh; one of them was sited in the interventricular septum with minimal pericardial effusion ( Figure 1 ). Figure 1 Computed tomography (CT) with multiple pellets in thorax and right arm. One of them is located in the interventricular septum (black arrow). The patient suffered from multiple acute complications after admission; right haemothorax and pneumothorax treated with drainage, liver laceration, bone …
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