title: Management of cardiac injury by stab wounds on the right lateral chest wall: a case report.
abstract: The report presented a 20-year-old male case with multiple stab wounds on the right lateral chest wall, and a latent heart injury was found during the right lateral thoracotomy. A laceration on the right ventricle was verified by a median sternoctomy and repaired using an Inforce suture. The clinicians should not neglect the lower probability of life-threatening thoracic injuries following stab wounds to the chest, despite the initial location of anatomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, 139 Renmin Road, Changsha, Hunan Province 410011 China.
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, 139 Renmin Road, Changsha, Hunan Province 410011 China.
authors.forename: Fenglei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, 139 Renmin Road, Changsha, Hunan Province 410011 China.
authors.forename: Sichuang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tan
keywords: Cardiac injury; Stab wounds; Thoracic trauma; Thoracotomy
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