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Rebekah J Devasahayam1, Robert A Fabich2, Currie A Tighe3
1102nd Forward Surgical Team, 47th Combat Support Hospital, JBLM, WA 98438.
Military Medicine
|December 11, 2019
Abstract:
A 25-year-old local national male presented to a split Forward Surgical Team after impalement of the posterior chest with a metal fragment. The patient was hemodynamically normal, but no imaging was available to determine the depth of penetration or the size of the internal portion of the fragment. This case represents a rare indication for posterolateral thoracotomy in an austere trauma setting.

