• Kyobu Geka · Feb 2003

    Case Reports

    [Penetrating cardiac and pulmonary injury by a nail-gun: report of a case].

    • J Sakata and A Sasaki.
    • Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Sunagawa City Medical Center, Sunagawa, Japan.
    • Kyobu Geka. 2003 Feb 1;56(2):169-71.

    AbstractA 64-year-old man underwent emergency operation for self-inflicted penetrating cardiac and pulmonary injury by a nail-gun. Chest films on admission showed 5 nails penetrating the thorax and one of these nails had reached into pericardium. Emergency surgery was performed by median sternotomy and the 5 nails in the chest wall were totally removed and the wound of right ventricle and lung were closed with direct mattress sutures without cardio-pulmonary bypass. Post operative course was uneventful and he was transferred to the psychiatric ward for the treatment of depression at post operative 7 days.

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