Citation

Ndiaye A, Gaye M, Ba PS, Diatta S, Diop MS, Ndiaye M. Asian Cardiovasc. Thorac Ann. 2017; 25(3): 229-232.

Affiliation

1 Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic, Fann University Hospital Center, Dakar, Senegal.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Asian-Pacific Society of Cardiology, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0218492317694521

PMID

28185476

Abstract

We report 5 cases of penetrating chest wounds caused by weapons made from swordfish swords, involving breakage of the sword that later appeared as a thoracic foreign body. The patients had been assaulted 2 days to 17 years earlier. Three of them had a chronic infected wound, one had a penetrating thoracic wound with hemopneumothorax, and one had a foreign body. Computed tomography showed a foreign body in the lung in 4 cases, with aortic penetration in one. The foreign body was removed via thoracotomy in all 4 patients, with aorta repair in one who presented later with a pseudoaneurysm.

Language: en

Keywords

Animals; Aortic rupture; Fishes; Foreign bodies; Lung injury; Wounds; stab