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Ezequiel Palmanovich1, Yaron S Brin, Lior Laver
1Orthopedics Department, Meir Medical Center, Affiliated to Sacker School of Medicine Tel Aviv University, Kfar Saba, Israel. ezequiel.palmanovich@clalit.org.il
Abstract:
Corals are marine animals that live in compact colonies. They secret calcium carbonate to form a skeletal structure. Coral sting or abrasions usually cause erythema and localized pain with a mild local toxic reaction. We describe a large bony injury in the hallux due to retained coral fragments in a young patient who sustained a mild injury during water sports in the Red Sea. The coral fragment was not removed during the first visit to ER, causing chronic local inflammation and ultimately a large bony injury. Vigorous localized debridement must be performed in all marine injuries to remove all possible fragments that can lead to irreversible local bony injury.
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