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If stabbed in the left lower stomache knife entering fatty tissue, would this be fatal or what would happen?or where in the stomache could you be stabb

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Belly wound bad.: It's always hard to say with certainty, but the entire abdomen contains very important structures. A knife wound anywhere in the area could be fatal. Another knife wound just an inch to the right or left of that wound might be survivable.

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Answered 1/9/2013

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