Heart embolization with the Kirschner wire without cardiac tamponade.

Forensic Sci Int

Institute of Forensic Medicine, School of Medicine Rijeka, University of Rijeka, Vukovarska 11, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia.

Published: November 2006

The case of the heart embolization with the Kirschner wire that was used for shoulder trauma fixation, 2 years previously in a 67-year-old female, is reported. This case is unique; although embolization of foreign bodies to the heart is not a novel occurrence, heart embolization with non-broken Kirschner wire with a total length of 13.5 cm without cardiac tamponade was not described in medical literature so far.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2005.09.014DOI Listing

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