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Images in Cardiothoracic Surgery

Simultaneous Lung and Spine Impalement From a Fractured Humerus After Blunt Trauma

^a Department of Thoracic Surgery, Georges Pompidou European Hospital, Paris, France
^b Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Georges Pompidou European Hospital, Paris, France
^c Department of Reanimation, Georges Pompidou European Hospital, Paris, France

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Le Pimpec-Barthes, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Georges Pompidou European Hospital, 20 rue Leblanc, Cedex 15, Paris, 75908, France (Email: francoise.le-pimpec-barthes@hop.egp.ap-hop-paris.fr).

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Blunt trauma to the shoulder resulting in humeral fracture and dislocation with intrathoracic displacement of the humeral head is extremely rare [1–3]. We observed a still more rare complex humeral fracture with an in-place humeral head but intrathoracic displacement of humeral bone fragments.

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