Penetrating Injury of the Heart From a Chronically Migrating Foreign Body Jawaher Al-Jalahma, MD, Wejdan Al-Hakami, MD, Yazan Musayab, MBBS, Tariq Ismail, MBBS, MD, Rajasekharan Nair, MS, FIACS, Khalid Bin Thani, MD, MAS The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 102, Issue 3, Pages e191-e192 (September 2016) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.01.078 Copyright © 2016 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Chest roentgenograms. (A, B) One year earlier. (C) At current hospital presentation. The arrows indicate the sharp foreign body. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2016 102, e191-e192DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.01.078) Copyright © 2016 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 (A) Transthoracic echocardiogram at the four-apical chamber view showing the pericardiocentesis catheter in place (arrow). (B, C) Computed tomographic view of chest showing a sharp object penetrating the right border of the heart. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2016 102, e191-e192DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.01.078) Copyright © 2016 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 The sharp piece of glass. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2016 102, e191-e192DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.01.078) Copyright © 2016 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions