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I had a 5" pin in my right clavicle after breaking it in a soccer game....broke my tibia and fibula at the same time.

After a week or so, the pin started to back itself out of the bone and poked it's way thru they skin. I went to the doc who told me it had to come out, and immediately started me on some Keflex antibiotics

Removing the pin involved a pair of vise-grips and the doc telling me to look away and take a deep breath.....ouch!