In ten minutes they were returned; they were carefully examined inch by inch for any wound, but none was found.
Three silver sutures were passed through the skin, and a firm compress applied.

The patient went to sleep shortly after his wound was dressed, and never had a single subsequent bad symptom; he was discharged on May 24th, the wound being entirely healed, with the exception of a cartilage of a rib which had not reunited.
Rogers mentions the case of a carpenter of thirty-six who was struck by a missile thrown by a circular saw, making a wound two inches above the umbilicus and to the left.

Through the opening a mass of intestines and a portion of the liver, attached by a pedicle, protruded.

A portion of the liver was detached, and the liver, as well as the intestines, were replaced, and the man recovered.
Baillie, Bhadoory, Barker, Edmundson, Johnson, and others, record instances of abdominal wounds accompanied by extensive protrusion of the intestines, and recovery.

Shah mentions an abdominal wound with protrusion of three feet of small intestine.