title: Threaded-alive on a wooden picket.
abstract: A case of 4-year-old girl is presented, brought threaded-alive on wooden picket due to head-on fall from roof with wooden picket entering through left subcostal region and exiting from right buttock. Midline laparotomy was performed. Wooden picket was removed after enlarging the entry and exit wounds.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, MST. 5-Mountain Field Ambulance, Azad Kashmir. surgeons786@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Mujahid Zulfiqar
authors.initials: MZ
authors.lastname: Ali
mesh_terms: D000007:Abdominal Injuries / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D000058:Accidental Falls; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003125:Colostomy; D005260:Female; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007813:Laparotomy / Q000379:methods; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D010384:Pelvic Bones / Q000293:injuries / Q000601:surgery; D010388:Pelvis / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014951:Wounds, Stab / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy