title: A needle infixed in the heart.
abstract: A 34-year-old man self-fixed a needle into his heart, in the interventricular septum. The foreign body was localized by X-ray, echocardiography, and computed tomography. At surgical opening of the pericardial lamina, the needle was extracted with no need of cutting open the cardiac muscle.
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, St Anna Hospital, Ferrara, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gallerani
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ferrari
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Magenta
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Barboso
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Antonelli
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Manfredini
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006346:Heart Septum; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009339:Needles; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders