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Figure 1: Pre-operative picture of the patient. Inset pictures show the trishula, body radiograph, and the entry and exit wounds.
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The shoot got disconnected from the tree and the child fell onto the trishula implanted alongside Lord Shiva's idol under the Banyan tree (Fig. 1). She was lying in lateral cuddled up position and was in severe pain though hemodynamically stable (Fig. 1).
Figure 2: (A) The trishula is seen perforating the right lobe of the liver, (B) The small bowel perforated at three different places, (C) Perforated transverse mesocolon, (D) Entry wound, (E) Exit wound located at the right 7th intercostal space.
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The rod exited from the 7th intercostal space in the right anterior axillary line (Fig. 2). 