title: Penetrating chest injuries caused by swordfish sword used as a weapon.
abstract: We report 5 cases of penetrating chest wounds caused by weapons made from swordfish swords, involving breakage of the sword that later appeared as a thoracic foreign body. The patients had been assaulted 2 days to 17 years earlier. Three of them had a chronic infected wound, one had a penetrating thoracic wound with hemopneumothorax, and one had a foreign body. Computed tomography showed a foreign body in the lung in 4 cases, with aortic penetration in one. The foreign body was removed via thoracotomy in all 4 patients, with aorta repair in one who presented later with a pseudoaneurysm.
authors.affiliation: 1 Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic, Fann University Hospital Center, Dakar, Senegal.|2 Department of Anatomy, UFR2S, Ziguinchor, Senegal.
authors.forename: Assane
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ndiaye
authors.affiliation: 1 Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic, Fann University Hospital Center, Dakar, Senegal.
authors.forename: Magaye
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gaye
authors.affiliation: 1 Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic, Fann University Hospital Center, Dakar, Senegal.
authors.forename: Papa Salmane
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Ba
authors.affiliation: 1 Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic, Fann University Hospital Center, Dakar, Senegal.
authors.forename: Souleymane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Diatta
authors.affiliation: 1 Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic, Fann University Hospital Center, Dakar, Senegal.
authors.forename: Momar Sokhna
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Diop
authors.affiliation: 1 Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic, Fann University Hospital Center, Dakar, Senegal.
authors.forename: Mouhamadou
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ndiaye
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D006468:Hemopneumothorax / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013898:Thoracic Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D013908:Thoracotomy / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D054041:Weapons; D014951:Wounds, Stab / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Animals; Aortic rupture; Fishes; Foreign bodies; Lung injury; Wounds; stab