Citation

Hu W, Yu F, Tan S. Indian J. Surg. 2015; 77(1): 65-66.

Affiliation

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, 139 Renmin Road, Changsha, Hunan Province 410011 China.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Springer India)

DOI

10.1007/s12262-013-1019-9

PMID

25829716

Abstract

The report presented a 20-year-old male case with multiple stab wounds on the right lateral chest wall, and a latent heart injury was found during the right lateral thoracotomy. A laceration on the right ventricle was verified by a median sternoctomy and repaired using an Inforce suture. The clinicians should not neglect the lower probability of life-threatening thoracic injuries following stab wounds to the chest, despite the initial location of anatomy.

Language: en