title: Sudden pain on pacemaker pocket followed by explosion in a patient with a permanent pacemaker.
abstract: An 81-year-old woman with a mercury-zinc powered permanent pacemaker experienced the sudden pain on her pacemaker pocket followed by an explosion. We are aware of no other report of the spontaneous and symptomatic bursting of a generator battery with fracture of the pulse generator capsule.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial / Q000009:adverse effects*; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology*