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Penetrating chest injuries caused by swordfish sword used as a weapon

2017; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 25; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/0218492317694521

1816-5370

Assane Ndiaye, Magaye Gaye, Papa Salmane Ba, Souleymane Diatta, Momar Sokhna Diop, Mouhamadou Bamba Ndiaye,

Restraint-Related Deaths

We report 5 cases of penetrating chest wounds caused by weapons made from swordfish swords, involving breakage of the sword that later appeared as a thoracic foreign body. The patients had been assaulted 2 days to 17 years earlier. Three of them had a chronic infected wound, one had a penetrating thoracic wound with hemopneumothorax, and one had a foreign body. Computed tomography showed a foreign body in the lung in 4 cases, with aortic penetration in one. The foreign body was removed via thoracotomy in all 4 patients, with aorta repair in one who presented later with a pseudoaneurysm.