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Images in emergency medicine
Penetrating cardiac nail gun injury
  1. C S Carr,
  2. S Alkhafaji,
  3. A M Alkhulaifi
  1. Department of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Hamad Hospital, Doha, Qatar
  1. Miss C S Carr, Department of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Hamad Hospital, P O Box 3050, Doha, Qatar; noahalkh{at}talk21.com

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emj.2006.040121

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    A 23-year-old carpenter presented following an accident in which a nail gun had been fired 1 metre away from him and a nail had penetrated his left chest. Apart from pain, he …

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