Emergency War Surgery NATO Handbook: Part IV: Regional Wounds and Injuries: Chapter XXVIII: Wounds and Injuries of the Chest
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Retained missiles may cause problems in two different ways. First, they may become the nidus of infection that results in an empyema or wound-tract sepsis. Second, they may on rare occasions enter the circulation by migrating from the lung or by being dislodged from a previously dormant state within a cardiac chamber. Then they may embolize in a quite unpredictable manner to other parts of the arterial tree.
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