Temporary Epicardial Pacing Wire Migrating to and Exiting From the Jaw Taichi Kondo, MD, Masanori Hirota, MD, PhD, Joji Hoshino, MD, Yu Takahashi, MD, Yuichi Notomi, Tadashi Isomura, MD, PhD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 98, Issue 6, Pages 2221-2223 (December 2014) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.02.055 Copyright © 2014 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 (A) Migrated ventricular temporary epicardial pacing wire (TEPW) (arrow) at the level of the neck and lower jaw. (B, C) Ventricular TEPW migrated to the neck (solid arrow) and the retained atrial TEPW (dashed arrow). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2014 98, 2221-2223DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.02.055) Copyright © 2014 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 A purulent protrusion on the patient's lower jaw (arrow) caused by the migrated temporary epicardial pacing wire. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2014 98, 2221-2223DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.02.055) Copyright © 2014 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions