Reminder of important clinical lesson: Right thoracoabdominal stab injury penetrating the liver and gallbladder: case report and lessons in penetrating knife wounds to the chest and abdomen

doi:10.1136/bcr.01.2010.2609

BMJ Case Rep. 2010; 2010: bcr0120102609.

Published online 2010 September 22. doi: 10.1136/bcr.01.2010.2609

PMCID: PMC3028013

Reminder of important clinical lesson

Right thoracoabdominal stab injury penetrating the liver and gallbladder: case report and lessons in penetrating knife wounds to the chest and abdomen

Ewen A Griffiths, Ahmed Mohamed, and Chris S Ball

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust, Barrow-in-Furnes, Cumbria, UK

Correspondence to Ahmed Mohamed, Email: dr.ahmedmalik/at/gmail.com

Abstract

The authors report a patient who suffered a penetrating knife injury to the right thoracoabdominal region which penetrated through the liver and both sides of the gallbladder. This injury was treated successfully by laparotomy and cholecystectomy.

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