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Penetrating Trauma to Abdomen with Transfixed Wooden Branch without Intra-Peritoneal Breach: A Close Call

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  • As the last rays of the night were fading into the darkness a 24 year old gentleman was rushed into the emergency by an ambulance

  • The patient was lying in a right lateral position with a moderately thick wooden branch piercing through his clothes

  • A wooden branch was transfixed to his abdomen with one end entering through 1 cm above the posterior superior iliac spine and exiting 1 cm above and anterior to the anterior superior iliac spine through the left flank when he fell to the ground

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Penetrating Trauma to Abdomen with Transfixed Wooden Branch without Intra-Peritoneal Breach: A Close Call. Article history: Received: 18 June 2018, Accepted: 03 August 2018, Published: 06 August 2018

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