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Case Reports
. 1999 Dec;171(11-12):676-7.
doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1999.tb123851.x.

Breaking the rules: a thoracic impalement injury

C L Foot  1 , P Naidoo
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Breaking the rules: a thoracic impalement injury

C L Foot et al. Med J Aust. 1999 Dec.

Abstract

In the case of a patient with an impalement injury, the object should be removed in a controlled operating theatre environment. We report an 18-year-old man for whom this rule could not be followed. He was removed from a metal pipe transfixing his chest at the roadside.

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