Citation

Keogh BE, Oakley CM, Taylor KM. Br. Heart J. 1988; 59(1): 77-80.

Affiliation

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3277655

PMCID

PMC1277078

Abstract

A 34 year old woman with a history of self-mutilation developed severe constrictive pericarditis with sterile, calcified intrapericardial abscess cavities as a result of inserting sewing needles into her chest seven years previously. After pericardiectomy she made a good recovery.

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