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Exfoliation and Analysis of Large-area, Air-Sensitive Two-Dimensional Materials
Published on: January 5, 2019
[Will broken glass bring luck?]
Abstract:
A 56 year old female patient presented to the emergency room because of a progressive, painful swelling of her thigh, clinically suspected to be a haematoma. Trauma was denied. Ultrasonography revealed a hyperechogenic structure, which appeared to be an intramuscular foreign body on computed tomography. Intraoperatively, a large piece of glass was found. Glass foreign bodies can be detected by x-rays with a high sensitivity. The threshold to order x-ray for the detection of glass foreign bodies should be low.
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