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Report of a case of pneumopericardium resulting from a stabwound

An 18-year-old woman with a height of about 160 cm and a weight of about 50 to 55 kg was brought to the emergency room of TehranPars Hospital on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 7, 2006 due to a stab wound. At the time of admission to the emergency room, the patient’s abdomen and sides were bloody, and by removing his clothes, it was determined that a knife blow of 2 to 3 cm in length and an unknown depth had entered the area below the hexaphoid appendage and the right side. The patient had a blood pressure of 70.50 mm Hg, a heart rate of 100 per minute and a respiratory rate of 20-25 per minute …