A woman was accidentally shot in the clitoris and had to get emergency surgery to get the bullet removed

A woman was accidentally shot in the clitoris and had to get emergency surgery to get the bullet removed… The “first” injury of its kind.

A report detailing her accidental piercing was published recently in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports.

“To the best of our knowledge, this is the first wayward bullet injury penetrating the vulvar area [the outer part of the female genitals] with a retained bullet in the clitoris,” study authors wrote.

According to the study, the 24-year-old unnamed patient had been relaxing at home, when all of a sudden, a stray bullet came through her ceiling and struck her in the nether regions.

‘To the best of our knowledge, this case is unique due to the bullet being retained in the clitoris’, they added. 

The date of the incident was not revealed in the case report by medics at Erdoğan Hospital in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. 

On arrival to hospital, the woman told the obstetrics and gynaecology team that she had been sat in her lounge when the stray bullet fell through the ceiling.

No other details of the incident were given. The alarmed woman reported to the Erdoğan Hospital in Mogadishu, where a CT scan revealed that the errant lead pellet had lodged itself inside her clitoris. As far as the study authors knew, this was the first case of its kind.

“We thought it to be rare and interesting,” they wrote of the unfortunate body shot, which thankfully struck her at a low velocity or her health could’ve been in jeopardy.

Surgeons placed the patient under local anesthesia and removed the projectile from her private parts. The woman, who wasn’t named, had suffered the injury an hour earlier.  

CT scans revealed the bullet had become lodged inside her clitoris after being fired into her vulva, meaning she required surgery to have it safely removed.

Publishing grisly images of her injury in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports, doctors said they believe the case is the first of its kind.

Tired bullet injuries often occur when a bullet is fired into the sky and it loses its energy and falls. 

Injuries with free falling bullets – or tired bullets – are often the result of uncontrolled use of firearms. In some countries, it has become tradition to fire guns during celebrations or festivals.

There are a limited number of studies regarding this type of falling bullets and their effects.

But, according to the team of medics at Erdoğan Hospital, the severity of gunshot wounds is determined by the amount of kinetic energy transferred by the bullet, once it is fired.