Penetrating chest injuries caused by swordfish sword used as a weapon. (March 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ndiaye, Assane; Gaye, Magaye; Ba, Papa Salmane; Diatta, Souleymane; Diop, Momar Sokhna; Ndiaye, Mouhamadou
• Is Part Of: Asian cardiovascular & thoracic annals. Volume 25:Number 3(2017)
• Page Start: 229
• Page End: 232
• Publication Date: 2017-03
• Subjects: Animals -- Aortic rupture -- Fishes -- Foreign bodies -- Lung injury -- Wounds -- stab; Heart -- Diseases -- Asia -- Periodicals; Heart -- Diseases -- Pacific Area -- Periodicals; Heart -- Diseases -- Periodicals; Heart -- Surgery -- Asia -- Periodicals; Heart -- Surgery -- Pacific Area -- Periodicals; Heart -- Surgery -- Periodicals; Chest -- Surgery -- Asia -- Periodicals; Chest -- Surgery -- Pacific Area -- Periodicals; Chest -- Surgery -- Periodicals; 617.412
• DOI: 10.1177/0218492317694521
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0218-4923

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.