%0 Journal Article
%T Management of Thoracic Impalement Injury in Ghana: A Five-Year Experience at the  Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital
%A Isaac Okyere
%A Samuel Gyasi Brenu
%A Perditer Okyere
%J World Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
%P 119-131
%@ 2164-3210
%D 2019
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/wjcs.2019.99014
%X Impalement injuries are rare and among the most spectacular and dramatic traumatic injuries especially of the chest. The survival of a patient with a thoracic impalement injury can be extremely rare. Herein we present and discuss our successes of the management of 7 rare cases of thoracic impalement inju<span style=\"line-height:1.5;font-family:Verdana;\">ries over a 5-year period from January 2014 to June 2019 at the Komfo Anokye Teac</span><span style=\"line-height:1.5;font-family:Verdana;\">hing Hospital, Kumasi in Ghana. We discuss the presentation, diagnosis, treatment and outcomes of the seven cases encountered.</span>
%K Foreign Body
%K Impalement Injury
%K Thoracic Injury
%K Thoracotomy
%K Sternotomy
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=95035