title: A complication of pectus excavatum operation: endomyocardial steel strut.
abstract: An 18-year-old patient who had correction of pectus excavatum deformity in our department 4 years earlier was admitted because of stabbing chest pain. He had not attended to postoperative controls and had not come for extraction of the steel strut, although he had been contacted. He was diagnosed to have a broken steel strut, and the strut was noted to be embedded in the myocardium. This unreported complication of pectus excavatum operation forced us to review sternal support techniques.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Istanbul, Istanbul Medical School, Turkey.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Onursal
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Toker
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bostanci
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Alpagut
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tireli
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology; D004699:Endocardium; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D005660:Funnel Chest / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009206:Myocardium; D019736:Prostheses and Implants / Q000009:adverse effects*; D013232:Steel; D013249:Sternum / Q000601:surgery*
chemical_list: D013232:Steel