Abstract
Sewing needles, albeit a rare case of penetrating cardiac injury, are potentially life‐threatening. We report a case of a self‐inflicted remnant intracardiac sewing needle which is diagnosed with nonspecific chest pain and successfully extracted 23 months after its insertion. Copyright © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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