@article{ref1,
title="Penetrating chest injuries caused by swordfish sword used as a weapon",
journal="Asian cardiovascular and thoracic annals",
year="2017",
author="Ndiaye, Assane and Gaye, Magaye and Ba, Papa Salmane and Diatta, Souleymane and Diop, Momar Sokhna and Ndiaye, Mouhamadou",
volume="25",
number="3",
pages="229-232",
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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0218-4923",
doi="10.1177/0218492317694521",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0218492317694521"
}