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Penetrating chest injuries caused by swordfish sword used as a weapon
Assane Ndiaye1,2, Magaye Gaye1, Papa Salmane Ba1
11 Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic, Fann University Hospital Center, Dakar, Senegal.
Asian Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals
|February 11, 2017
Abstract:
We report 5 cases of penetrating chest wounds caused by weapons made from swordfish swords, involving breakage of the sword that later appeared as a thoracic foreign body. The patients had been assaulted 2 days to 17 years earlier. Three of them had a chronic infected wound, one had a penetrating thoracic wound with hemopneumothorax, and one had a foreign body. Computed tomography showed a foreign body in the lung in 4 cases, with aortic penetration in one. The foreign body was removed via thoracotomy in all 4 patients, with aorta repair in one who presented later with a pseudoaneurysm.