Penetrating cardiac injuries represent an increasingly frequent type of trauma in clinical and
autopsy practice. The present study aims to review the specialist literature of the last decade …

Penetrating cardiac injuries (PCI) are challenging in part because of their lethality and have
thus long demanded the respect of physicians [1]. In the early eighteenth century …

Introduction Penetrating cardiac injuries are emergencies that require prompt surgical
management. Most of these injuries are caused by gunshots or stab wounds however the …

Pneumatically powered nail guns have been used in construction since 1959. Penetrating
injuries to the heart with nail guns have a wide range of presentations from asymptomatic to …

A 56-year-old man had five nail gun-shots on his skull due to attempted suicide and was
transferred to the emergency room. Because the nail head played a role as a brake, the …

Penetrating head injuries caused by unconventional objects such as a nail generate
speculation and doubt regarding the manner of infliction. We report a case of a 24-year-old …

We report the case of a patient with injuries to multiple organs as a result of attempted
suicide with a nail gun. The patient shot 12 nails into his chest, causing damage to multiple …

A 28-year-old male admitted with a stab wound under his left nipple, underwent emergency
surgery because of confusion, a decreasing blood pressure and increasing tachycardia. A …

INTRODUCTION: Penetrating cardiac injuries is still a diagnostic problem at this time. Their
management requires immediate surgical intervention and excellent surgical critical care …

Nail-gun injury to the heart is rare. Nail-gun injury to the interventricular septum is rarer: we
could find only 5 reported cases, and none involving a child. We report 2 additional cases, in …