Gallerani M, Ferrari F, Magenta G, Barboso G, Antonelli A M, Manfredini R
Emergency Department, St Anna Hospital, Ferrara, Italy.
Am J Emerg Med. 1998 Nov;16(7):662-3. doi: 10.1016/s0735-6757(98)90169-3.
A 34-year-old man self-fixed a needle into his heart, in the interventricular septum. The foreign body was localized by X-ray, echocardiography, and computed tomography. At surgical opening of the pericardial lamina, the needle was extracted with no need of cutting open the cardiac muscle.