Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery (Sep 2011)

Migração de fio de Kirschner transfixando artéria aorta torácica ascendente Migration of a Kirschner wire into the thoracic ascendent aorta artery

  • Danilo Felix Daud,
  • Marcos Menezes Freitas de Campos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5935/1678-9741.20110033
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 3
pp. 508 – 510

Abstract

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A migração de pinos e hastes metálicas ortopédicos para a cavidade torácica é rara e pouco descrita na literatura médica, embora seja potencialmente fatal, principalmente quando atingem o coração ou grandes vasos intratorácicos. Reportamos um caso de migração de fio de Kirschner, implantado na clavícula direita há 10 anos, transfixando a aorta torácica em sua porção ascendente, sendo retirado por toracotomia póstero-lateral esquerda.The orthopedic metallic pins and wires migration for the chest cavity is uncommon and rarely reported in medical literature although it is potentially lethal, especially when they reach the heart or mediastinum great vessels. We reported a case of Kirschner wire withdrawal, for right postero-lateral thoracotomy, which were transfixanting ascendent thoracic aorta artery, in its due to its migration of left clavicle, where it was placed to fix an occurred fracture 10 years before.

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