Large Piece of Wood Board Removal and Long Term Survival in a Patient with Stabbed Thoracic Wound - Case Report
B.A. Suciu, V. Bud, A. Strat, A.C. CopotoiuClinical case, no. 5, 2014
Stabbed thoracic trauma is quite common in military practice,but they very rarely occur in civilian life, where they arepredominantly accidental injuries. Thoracic stabbed woundsare more commonly observed in men than in women and inyounger rather than older people. The management andprognosis depend on the composition, size and location of theforeign body. A 28-year-old Caucasian woman presented tothe emergency room with hemorrhagic shock, a largestabbed wound and retention of a large piece of wood board.Less than 10 minutes after arriving to the emergency roomshe underwent open surgical thoracotomies and resection ofthe spleen rupture without any significant postoperative complications. At the end of the procedure the left breastwas reconstructed. The original aspects of this case are thesingularity of the foreign body and its relative harmlessnessin spite of its large size.
