A 19-year-old boy was involved in a gang fight. It started as an argument but quickly worsened into a street brawl with the use of knives. He was examined in the emergency department and found to have a bleeding stab wound in his left flank. A urine specimen revealed frank blood.
-Stab wounds of the kidneys involve other abdominal organs in a high percentage of cases. Of the organs listed, which one is least likely to be damaged in this patient?
A) Stomach
B) Spleen
C) Inferior vena cava
D) Left colic flexure
E) Left suprarenal gland
F) Coils of jejunum
G) Body of the pancreas
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