TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Pedal coral injury: A case report
JO  - Foot, The
A1  - Palmanovich, Ezequiel
A1  - Brin, Yaron S.
A1  - Laver, Lior
A1  - Kish, Binyamin
A1  - Nyska, Meir
SP  - 50
EP  - 52
VL  - 23
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0958-2592
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foot.2012.12.005
ID  - ref1
ER  -