A fellow surgeon posted the following Xray for a patient who walked into their clinic asking for ideas on how to address the Humerus fracture. I thought it might be interesting to the folks here and had some questions of my own outside of the medical treatment.
I don’t know the treating physician, but suspect this is an OCONUS, possibly Kurdistan and likely with a military rifle.
The disintegration of the humerus is impressive. The injury is described as having only an entry wound and having the nerves and vasculature to the arm intact.
I see some sort of penetrating bullet tip that is intact in the Xray. The rest of the bullet has completely fragmented.
Any idea what sort of cartridge and bullet this is?
Is this typical bony destruction one can see with small caliber, high velocity rifle injuries?