2006 Volume 20 Issue 6 Pages 843-846
A 66-year-old male, who had undergone internal fixation of a right clavicular fracture with two Kirschner wires three months previously, visited another physician, because of a right chest pain and dyspnea since he had carried an object weighing approximately 30kg 10 days before. The needle of a migrated Kirschner wire had penetrated the thoracic cavity at the dorsal aspect of the right chest wall, accompanied with a right pneumothorax. He was referred to our hospital for further treatment. An emergency operation was done by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. The Kirschner wire which had penetrated the right thoracic cavity was located and successfully removed. The recovery was uneventful.
