Migratory traumatic cardiovascular foreign bodies.
Six cases of cardiovascular foreign bodies secondary to trauma are presented. The various modes of entry and travel within the vascular are reviewed. Routine radiographic examination and angiography are shown to be the most useful techniques in defining the location and subsequent course of the foreign body in the vascular system.
D000328:Adult; D001366:Axillary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007264:Inguinal Canal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D011860:Radiography, Abdominal; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot