A needle infixed in the heart.

A 34-year-old man self-fixed a needle into his heart, in the interventricular septum, The foreign body was localized by X-ray, echocardiography, and computed tomography, At surgical opening of the pericardial lamina, the needle was extracted with no need of cutting open the cardiac muscle. Copyright (C) 1998 by W.B. Saunders Company