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Penetrating chest trauma: radiological appearances.
A 46-year-old man stabbed himself with a knife. While he was stable, frontal and lateral chest radiographs were obtained (Fig. 1). Following a cardiac arrest, emergency sternotomy and cardiopulmonary bypass were performed. The acute margins of the heart and diaphragm were lacerated. The knife passed 5 mm posteromedial to the inferior vena cava (Fig. 2). Recovery was uneventful. Figure 1: Fronta...
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Penetrating chest wounds can hide a range of life threatening injuries and often require emergency surgical management. It is important that the patient be assessed and managed according to clinical need and response to medical intervention. This is a case of a patient with a large intrapulmonary haematoma who was managed conservatively and made a good recovery without need for surgery.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0035-8665,2052-0468
DOI: 10.1136/jramc-139-02-13