An unusual intracardiac foreign body following penetrating thoracic injury

Florence Nougarolis (1) , Fatima-Zohra Mokrane (1) , Laurent Brouchet (1) , Norbert Telmon (1) , Hervé Rousseau (1) , Nicolas Sans (1) , Fabrice Dedouit (1)

1 CHU Toulouse - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse

Foreign bodies in the heart after thoracic trauma may result in fatal outcome. We report a pendant inside the pericardium after penetrating injury that did not cause major cardiac injury with a favorable outcome.

Mots clés: Cardiac foreign body; Pericardial sac; Thoracic trauma

Domaines: Médecine humaine et pathologie

Florence Nougarolis, Fatima-Zohra Mokrane, Laurent Brouchet, Norbert Telmon, Hervé Rousseau, et al.. An unusual intracardiac foreign body following penetrating thoracic injury. Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging, 2017, 98 (12), pp.901-902. ⟨10.1016/j.diii.2017.10.001⟩. ⟨hal-02143184⟩