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Mon Jul 16 17:18:52 BST 2007

Over the last 60 years, we have removed bullets in the following  
circumstances at the BTGH in Houston:  

1.    Just under the skin, and residing in a pressure  area where the bullet 
is painful when one sits or lies down.  

2.    In a joint space

3.    Documented elevated lead levels (several months  after an injury), 
especially in a child - EXTREMELY RARE

4.    Required for forensic investigation and the  patient and surgeon are in 
FULL agreement that the removal will not result in  increased pain, 
suffering, complications or injury and  BOTH agree to the  removal. 

5.    Impinging on a nerve root and causing radicular  pain

6.    Migration to the heart, peripheral artery or  vein, including pulmonary 
artery.   

AND that is about it.    

k

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