Intramyocardial sewing needle extracted one year after insertion

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 742-743

  Mandegar, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Yousefnia, Mohammad Ali ^a   Rayatzadeh, Hossein ^a   Roshanali, Farideh ^a  

^a Day General Hospital   (Iran)

Author keywords

Epicardial echocardiography; Foreign body; Needle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HEART INJURY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; NEEDLE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33845382037     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2006.138784     Document Type: Article

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