text: PREPROCEDURE DIAGNOSIS:,  Stab wound, left posterolateral chest.,POST PROCEDURE DIAGNOSIS: , Stab wound, left posterolateral chest.,PROCEDURE PERFORMED: , Closure of stab wound.,ANESTHESIA: , 1% lidocaine with epinephrine by local infiltration.,NARRATIVE:  ,The wound was irrigated copiously with 500 mL of irrigation and closed in 1 layer with staples after locally anesthetizing with 1% lidocaine with epinephrine.  The patient tolerated the procedure well without apparent complications.surgery, posterolateral chest, stab wound, lidocaine, epinephrine, infiltration, closure, 