RT Journal
A1 McCaughan JS, Jr., Miller PR
T1 MIgration of steinmann pin from shoulder to lung
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 1969
FD March 10
VO 207
IS 10
SP 1917
OP 1917
DO 10.1001/jama.1969.03150230131030
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03150230131030
AB To the Editor:— 
    The migration of nails and pins from the femur into the acetabulum and bladder and various other foreign body migrations have been reported. Tristan and Daughtridge1 reported on the migration of a smooth Steinmann pin into the lung, but we were not able to find any description of the migration of a threaded Steinmann pin from the shoulder into the lung. Here is such a case.Report of a Case: 
    A 12-year-old boy sustained a birth injury involving the left brachial plexus and had a flail left shoulder. On Nov 13, 1964, in an arthrodesis of the left shoulder two threaded Steinmann pins were used (Fig 1). This healed without event until Feb 3, 1968, when the patient was admitted to the hospital with a two-day history of hemoptysis and fever. The temperature (oral) was 105 F (40.6 C), and he was coughing up gross blood.