Summary Impalement injuries of the chest are uncommon in civilian practice with few reports in the literature. We report three cases of thoracic impalement seen over a 5 year period with unusual ...

A 66-year-old man experienced a traumatic injury after a fall on top of a glass tea table, which caused some superficial lacerations all around the body. He was examined in the emergency room by a ...

Department of Emergency Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan. Department of Neurosurgery, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan. Among penetrating injuries, those caused by a ...

Transperineal abdomino-thoracic impalement is a rare and complex penetrating injury that can present a significant challenge to surgeons worldwide. Due to its rarity, there are no established ...

1 Department of Orthopaedics, National Orthopaedic Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria. 2 Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria. Impalement is an injury ...

Throughout history, two styles of impalement were commonly used. Longitudinal impalement involved impaling someone from the bottom up, with the point of the stake (or ‘pale’) usually emerging from the ...

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Thoracic trauma is common in dogs and may result in marked morbidity and mortality because of injury to the lung parenchyma (pulmonary contusion), pleural space (hemopneumothorax), great vessels, ...