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A needle infixed in the heart
M Gallerani1, F Ferrari, G Magenta
1Emergency Department, St Anna Hospital, Ferrara, Italy.
The American Journal of Emergency Medicine
|November 25, 1998
Abstract:
A 34-year-old man self-fixed a needle into his heart, in the interventricular septum. The foreign body was localized by X-ray, echocardiography, and computed tomography. At surgical opening of the pericardial lamina, the needle was extracted with no need of cutting open the cardiac muscle.