Nail embolization to the femoral artery Journal Articles

abstract

• ABSTRACTModern air-nailing tools are known to cause penetrating trauma. We report the unusual case of a pneumatically fired carpenter's nail that penetrated the chest of a 30-year-old man and subsequently embolized from the heart to the left femoral artery without clinical evidence of having entered the heart. The nail was surgically removed, and the patient was discharged from hospital without sequelae after 10 days. This case and the relevant literature are discussed from the perspective of the emergency department investigation and care of such patients.

authors

• Baw, Bandar
• Al-Salamah, Majid A
• Al-Hodaib, Abdullah
• Wadams, Heather

status

• published 

publication date

• July 2005

has subject area

• 1103 Clinical Sciences (FoR)
• Emergency & Critical Care Medicine (Science Metrix)

published in

• Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine  Journal

keywords

• 32 Biomedical and Clinical Sciences
• 3202 Clinical Sciences
• 8 Health and social care services research
• 8.1 Organisation and delivery of services
• Cardiovascular
• Clinical Research
• Heart Disease

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1017/s1481803500014445

PubMed ID

• 17355687

start page

• 278

end page

• 281

volume

• 7

issue

• 04