Shrapnel—Plate 103.
UPPER EXTREMITY.
Gunshot Fracture of the Right Radius.
The missile in its course from behind forward and from above downward left a trail of its metal particles along the line of its first contact until the bone yielded to the pressure in a transverse fracture.
The arm lies in slight pronation with the longitudinal ridges of the dorsal surface of the ulna, shown distinctly next to the photographic plate. The upper end of the lower radial fragment, shown as overlying the ulna, is inclined forward in the anatomical position. The metal particles are on the outer and posterior border of the radius.
The treatment in such cases is conservative.
Results as to function are uncertain.
Plate 104.
