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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;82:1915
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Images in Cardiothoracic Surgery

Thoracoscopic Removal of Pericardial Foreign Body

Sita Rama Rao Podila, MRCS, FETCS, Adam Szafranek, MD, Asif Raza Rathore, MBBS, Subramaniam Balachandran, MD, FRCA, Nihal P. Kulatilake, FRCS, FETCS*

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, South Wales, United Kingdom

* Address correspondence to Dr Kulatilake, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff CF14 4XW South Wales, United Kingdom. (Email: kulatilakenp@cardiff.ac.uk).

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A 66-year-old man had an uneventful coronary bypass in November 2004. He presented with an erythematous swelling at the lower end of the sternotomy incision in April 2005. Routine investigations for infection were negative.

A computed tomographic scan (Fig 1) showed a thick-walled, retro sternal collection of . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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