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A man miraculously avoided death after being impaled by an iron rod through his perineum in a freak accident.
Gruesome scans show how the rod extended into the 57-year-old's chest.
The Brazilian man, who wasn't identified by doctors who shared the gory case in a medical journal, was on scaffolding when he slipped and fell 5m onto the pole.
Impaling him in a delicate area, it pierced through his liver and and reached the top of his diaphragm, narrowly missing his heart.
CT scans also revealed the rod had impaled his abdomen and thorax, but incredibly he survived.
Gruesome scans show how the rod extended into the 57-year-old's chest. The Brazilian man, who wasn't identified by doctors who shared the gory case in a medical journal, was on scaffolding when he slipped and fell 5m onto the pole
Sharing eye-watering details of the injury, doctors told how they removed the pole in a painstaking operation.
Medics revealed he somehow escaped with no
