A piece of glass in the heart.
Most posttraumatic foreign bodies are metal objects in the heart, such as bullets and needles; nonmetal objects are very rare. We now report a case in which a piece of glass entered a girl's heart from an injury to the right side of her neck. Six months later, we successfully removed the glass shard from the anterior wall of the right ventricle.
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Xiubin
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Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Cardiovascular Institute and Fu Wai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China. xiubinyang@yahoo.com
Shen
Xiangdong
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D000818:Animals; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D002648:Child; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005898:Glass; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D023421:Models, Animal; D019838:Neck Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000209:etiology*; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010998:Pleurisy / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013552:Swine; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000209:etiology; D035423:Thoracic Cavity / Q000601:surgery*; D013997:Time Factors; D000267:Tissue Adhesions / Q000209:etiology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography