@article{ref1,
title="Pedal coral injury: A case report",
journal="Foot, The",
year="2013",
author="Palmanovich, Ezequiel and Brin, Yaron S. and Laver, Lior and Kish, Binyamin and Nyska, Meir",
volume="23",
number="1",
pages="50-52",
abstract="Corals are marine animals that live in compact colonies. They secret calcium carbonate to form a skeletal structure. Coral sting or abrasions usually cause erythema and localized pain with a mild local toxic reaction. We describe a large boney injury in the hallux due to retained coral fragments in a young patient who sustained a mild injury during water sports in the Red Sea. The coral fragment was not removed during the first visit to ER, causing chronic local inflammation and ultimately a large boney injury. Vigorous localized debridement must be performed in all marine injuries to remove all possible fragments that can lead to irreversible local boney injury.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0958-2592",
doi="10.1016/j.foot.2012.12.005",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foot.2012.12.005"
}