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case_images: Sagittal CT radiograph showing the splintered end of the impaled object.
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case_images: ACS Level I Trauma Center and teaching hospital, the patient was alert and hemodynamically stable with the chief complaint of abdominal pain. After trauma evaluation and assurance of his stability, radiographic images (plain X-rays and CT scans) were obtained (Figures 1  and 2) and the decision was made to bring the patient to the operating room for formal exploration and operative management of his injuries.
case_images: Coronal CT radiograph showing the blunt end of the object extending into the neck.
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case_images: ACS Level I Trauma Center and teaching hospital, the patient was alert and hemodynamically stable with the chief complaint of abdominal pain. After trauma evaluation and assurance of his stability, radiographic images (plain X-rays and CT scans) were obtained (Figures 1  and 2) and the decision was made to bring the patient to the operating room for formal exploration and operative management of his injuries.
case_images: Photograph showing the object tenting the right side of the patient's neck.
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case_images: It pierced the anterior intraperitoneal rectum, traversed the small and large bowel mesentery three times, passed through-and-through the stomach, pierced the diaphragm and pericardium, and laid with its distal end pinned below the right clavicle and extending into the neck (Figure 3).
case_images: The extracted wooden rod measured 63.5 cm in length.
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case_images: The wooden rod's overall length was 63.5 centimeters (Figure 4).
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