Guangzhou Daily News (all media reporter Wu Wanhong correspondent Wang Wenyu, Yang Ze fills) Every time Mr. Deng, 60, goes through the security check, his hands are clearly empty, but the alarm always sounds. There were 6 metal foreign bodies in the lower back, which were removed by surgery. Yang Zhenhuai, the chief physician of the Department of Surgery, Guangzhou Medical University Affiliated Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that there are metal foreign bodies in the body for a long time, which may cause rejection and induce infection. In order to eliminate concerns, it is recommended to seek medical treatment as soon as possible.
In recent years, the 60-year-old Mr. Deng has been troubled by alarms, and finally made up his mind to go to the Affiliated Chinese Medicine Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University for an examination. He said that during the rainy season, he would feel lower back pain, and he thought it was “rheumatism”. The pain has recently worsened, especially when he is active. Yang Zhenhuai, Chief Physician of the Department of Surgery, found after inspection that Mr. Deng had scattered granular scars on the skin of Mr. Deng’s back and back, and scattered small foreign bodies could be vaguely touched. Part of the skin was black in color, and the pain was obvious when he touched these particles.
After careful consultation, Mr. Deng informed him that he had been accidentally injured in this part by someone playing with an air gun more than 30 years ago. Due to the medical conditions at that time, Mr. Deng did not go to the hospital for regular treatment of bullet steel balls. . It is very likely that the steel ball that has “lived” in his body for more than 30 years is what caused him to feel unwell.
The X-ray report showed that there were 6 metal foreign bodies in Mr. Deng’s right lower back. During the operation, it was found that four metal foreign bodies were buried under the skin in a sieve shape, and the other two were deep in the latissimus dorsi muscle and at the level of the paratransverse process. After nearly an hour of surgery, a total of 6 steel balls were removed from the precise location. The surface was rough and lost its luster.
Yang Zhenhuai pointed out that fortunately, it is very likely that due to the thick clothes that Mr. Deng was wearing at the time, these steel ball bullets did not penetrate into the body cavity, but only existed in the muscles and subcutaneous parts. If these steel balls are left in the body tissue for a long time, when the immunity of the body is low or other inducing factors are encountered, the foreign body may reject the foreign body, induce infection or even compress the surrounding important nerves and blood vessels, and a series of corresponding symptoms will appear. For example, bacterial infection can cause local inflammation in mild cases, and can enter the bloodstream to form bacteremia in severe cases; another example is foreign body reaction, metal poisoning, etc.
After the metal foreign body enters the human body, if it enters the large blood vessels, trachea, esophagus, urethra, etc., it may also travel with the pipeline, and finally embolize the corresponding organs, resulting in dyspnea, hemoptysis, blood in urine, urinary retention, etc. Symptoms, if the embolism to the large blood vessels of the lower extremities can also pose a risk of amputation.
Yang Zhenhuai reminded that if a person always triggers a warning signal when passing through a safety inspection, it is better to go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible.