Full of lead: old bullet comes back to bite
This is why intra-articular bullets should always be removed
![Knee X-ray](https://www.ausdoc.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/must-see-lead-toxicity-bullet-nejm-1.jpg)
‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ is the approach sometimes taken with gunshot wounds — that is, if removing the bullet would do more harm than good.
But a recent report in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrates why bullets in the body’s joints should never be left alone, after a man started showing signs of lead poisoning 14 years later.