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Scroto-abdominal impalement injury in a skateboard rider
A M Carragher1, S K Sulaiman, K J Panesar
1Department of Surgery, Altnagelvin Area Hospital, Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
The Journal of Emergency Medicine
|July 1, 1990
Abstract:
The injuries sustained by skateboard riders vary from minor cuts and abrasions to fractures. This report describes a unique injury sustained by a young skateboard rider who was impaled on a metal rod. Literature review of over 1,254 skateboard injuries did not reveal any other instances of penetrating abdominal trauma.