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The intravenous foreign body: a report of 2 cases
1Department of Hand Surgery and Peripheral Nerve Surgery, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
The Journal of Hand Surgery
|March 20, 2002
Abstract:
Two cases of metallic foreign body injury to the upper limb are described. In both cases the foreign body was clearly visible on x-rays, considered to be lodged in the soft tissues, but migrated to one of the large subcutaneous veins. One subsequently migrated to the heart; the other was removed from the peripheral vein.