An Unusual Foreign Body in Pulmonary Artery — A Case Report
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Mehmet Ali Bedirhan; Cemil Barlas; Ertan Onursal; Goksel Kalayci
- Source
- Vascular Surgery. 20:61-65
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Unusual case
business.industry
Mediastinum
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
medicine.disease
Surgery
03 medical and health sciences
Fixation (surgical)
0302 clinical medicine
medicine.anatomical_structure
medicine.artery
Pulmonary artery
medicine
Kirschner wire
030212 general & internal medicine
Radiology
Foreign body
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Foreign Bodies
- Language
- ISSN
- 0042-2835
An unusual case of pulmonary foreign body is reported. The foreign body, Kirschner wire, was used for clavicular fixation. It was found free in the middle part of mediastinum one and a half years after fixation in a control chest roent genogram. We discussed by which tract such a rigid substance had arrived in the pulmonary artery. We also reviewed the diagnostic techniques and surgical difficulties in removing foreign bodies from the pulmonary circulation.