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A 39-year-old man victim of an abdominal impalement by a diver's harpoon.
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The harpoon, 110 cm long and 1 cm in diameter, had penetrated his abdominal wall at the sub-xiphoid region, making an angle of 70  (Fig. 1).
abdominal radiograph (A: face, B: profil) showing the harpoon entry in sub xyphoid, ending in the D11 vertebral body.
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Radiographs made in the supine position showed that the harpoon had penetrated at the sub-xiphoid region up to the D11 vertebral body (Fig. 2).
Abdominal CT (A: sagittal, B: frontal) showed the harpoon (yellow line) transfixing the 3rd hepatic segment, crossing the inter aorto-caval space (Aorta in red), and ending at the D11's vertebral body.
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Abdominal CT showed the harpoon transfixing the 3rd hepatic segment, crossing the inter aorto-caval space within 4 mm of the abdominal aorta, and ending at the D11 vertebral body (Fig. 3).