[Gunshot wounds in peace and their treatment. Review of the literature].

For therapy of bullet-wounds in peace profound knowledge of their pathogenesis is necessary. This may be especially true for wounds evoked by new developed weapons. It may be assumed that often therapists are not familiar with the effects of these modern weapons. This review of 27 international publications therefore represents particularities of wounds of the body cavities and the extremities. Furthermore the problem of bulletembolies is represented.