Self-insertion of needles: An unusual cause of empyema thoracis and its thoracoscopic management.
Intrapulmonary aberrant needles are rare in clinical practice. Most common cause till date is the intra-thoracic migration of pins and wires commonly used in treatment of fractures and dislocations of upper extremity. Some cases of traumatic intra-thoracic insertion of needles have also been reported. We report a patient of empyema thoracis due to unusual habit of self-insertion of needles in his body because of some myth. The patient was successfully managed by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.
Jain
Vinod
V
Department of Surgery, C.S.M. Medical University, Lucknow, India.
Tiwari
Sandeep
S
Misra
Samir
S
Chaudhary
Debashish
D
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