Projectile Injury Near the Brachial Plexus

Abstract

We report the case of a young 36-year-old rider with no notable pathological history, victim of an explosion from the fire fighting (black powder chamber) of his rifle when firing during the celebrations of TBOURIDA (ancient equestrian art, dating from the 15th century It is an equestrian representation which simulates a succession of military parades, reconstituted according to ancestral Arab-Amazigh conventions and rituals), Causing the departure of projectile (percussion lock); with impact point on the front of the right shoulder. The examination at the emergency room admission 30 minutes from the accident found a conscious patient, stable hemodynamic state, normal breathing, the inspection objected a wound of 15mm in diameter at the level of the right deltopectoral groove, without an opening exit (Figure 1). The vasculo-nervous examination of the right upper limb was normal. The standard x-ray showed the presence of a foreign body between the glenohumeral joint and the rib cage (Figure 2), the chest CT scan with injection of the contrast product revealed the foreign body located one centimeter from the axillary artery, without lung lesions (Figure 3).