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Presentation of Case

A 55-year-old man was admitted to this hospital after being impaled by the prow of a racing shell in a rowing accident.

The patient, who was in excellent health, was sculling on the Charles River in Boston when his boat collided head-on at approximately 7:20 a.m. with an eight-person shell moving in the opposite direction; both boats were estimated to be traveling at 12 to 16 km per hour. The initial contact between the vessels tore a rubber safety bumper from the larger boat, and the sharp prow of the larger craft entered the left side of the patient's lower . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Discussion of Management

Trauma Resuscitation and Abdominal Operative Issues

Orthopedic Evaluation and Rehabilitation

Trauma Systems and Trauma Centers

Anatomical Diagnosis

Source Information

From the Departments of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care (R.L.S., G.V.), Orthopedics (R.M.S.), and Radiology (R.S.), Massachusetts General Hospital; and the Departments of Surgery (R.L.S., G.V.), Orthopedic Surgery (R.M.S.), and Radiology (R.S.), Harvard Medical School.

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