Management of chest impalement injury

PRESENTATION OF CASE: We will describe the case of a man who impaled himself on a greenhouse pole by falling off a ladder. DISCUSSION: The belated radiological exclusion of any spine and neck lesions forced the surgeons to operate with the patient supine and on a spine board, which prevented them fr...

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Autores principales: Bergaminelli, Carlo, Salvi, Rosario, Mattiacci, Dario Maria, Messina, Giovanni, Cicalese, Marcellino, Curcio, Carlo, Buono, Salvatore, Corcione, Antonio, Rispoli, Marco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6664164/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31357103
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2019.07.043
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author Bergaminelli, Carlo
Salvi, Rosario
Mattiacci, Dario Maria
Messina, Giovanni
Cicalese, Marcellino
Curcio, Carlo
Buono, Salvatore
Corcione, Antonio
Rispoli, Marco
author_facet Bergaminelli, Carlo
Salvi, Rosario
Mattiacci, Dario Maria
Messina, Giovanni
Cicalese, Marcellino
Curcio, Carlo
Buono, Salvatore
Corcione, Antonio
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description PRESENTATION OF CASE: We will describe the case of a man who impaled himself on a greenhouse pole by falling off a ladder. DISCUSSION: The belated radiological exclusion of any spine and neck lesions forced the surgeons to operate with the patient supine and on a spine board, which prevented them from performing the classic thoracotomy and reaching the entry hole in the right scapula area. CONCLUSION: A double thoracotomy and the expedient of a haemostatic plug, positioned simultaneously with the extraction of the pole, allowed to control bleeding with absolute safety margins.
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spelling pubmed-66641642019-08-05 Management of chest impalement injury Bergaminelli, Carlo Salvi, Rosario Mattiacci, Dario Maria Messina, Giovanni Cicalese, Marcellino Curcio, Carlo Buono, Salvatore Corcione, Antonio Rispoli, Marco Int J Surg Case Rep Article PRESENTATION OF CASE: We will describe the case of a man who impaled himself on a greenhouse pole by falling off a ladder. DISCUSSION: The belated radiological exclusion of any spine and neck lesions forced the surgeons to operate with the patient supine and on a spine board, which prevented them from performing the classic thoracotomy and reaching the entry hole in the right scapula area. CONCLUSION: A double thoracotomy and the expedient of a haemostatic plug, positioned simultaneously with the extraction of the pole, allowed to control bleeding with absolute safety margins. Elsevier 2019-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6664164/ /pubmed/31357103 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2019.07.043 Text en © 2019 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Management of chest impalement injury
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