Citation

Zebele C, Gianoli M, Elenbaas T, Brink PRG, Van Zundert AA. Asian Cardiovasc. Thorac Ann. 2011; 19(5): 349-351.

Affiliation

carlo.zebele@gmail.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Asian-Pacific Society of Cardiology, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0218492311419173

PMID

22100931

Abstract

A 72-year-old man was admitted with one blade of a huge pair of shears in his left thorax. His hemodynamics deteriorated due to life-threatening vascular lesions. An urgent thoracotomy revealed several injuries to the intercostal vessels and left apical inferior lung lobe. The blade tip was stuck in the posterior chest wall, 2 cm adjacent to the descending aorta. The blade was removed, the lung was sutured, and the patient made a good recovery.

Language: en