Case report: surgical removal of a migrated needle in right ventricle of an intravenous drug user

BACKGROUND: Illicit drug use has become an increasing public health and social concern in the past decades worldwide. Intravenous injection has an elevated risk of infection. Needle embolism is a rare complication of intravenous drug users, Retained broken needles can lead to local complications, su...

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Autores principales: Fu, Xianming, Chen, Kai, Liao, Xiaobo, Shen, Kangjun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
Materias:
Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5721468/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29216882
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13011-017-0134-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5721468/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29216882
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13011-017-0134-1

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