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Chronic constrictive pericarditis caused by self-mutilation with sewing needles. A case report and review of
B E Keogh1, C M Oakley, K M Taylor
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London.
British Heart Journal
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
A 34 year old woman with a history of self-mutilation developed severe constrictive pericarditis with sterile, calcified intrapericardial abscess cavities as a result of inserting sewing needles into her chest seven years previously. After pericardiectomy she made a good recovery.