Gunshot Roentgenograms / A Collection of Roentgenograms Taken in Constantinople During the Turko-Balkan War, 1912-1913, Illustrating Some Gunshot Wounds in the Turkish Army

by Clyde S. Ford

Shrapnel—Plate 136.

LOWER EXTREMITY.
Gunshot Wound of the Leg,
with Lodgment of the Missile.

The leg lay with its posterior surface next to the photographic plate. The enlarged shadow of the ball and the blurred outlines of the metal fragments require them to be some distance from the plate and therefore on the anterior surface of the tibia.

The impact has been from within outward with so little energy that the ball only touched the internal border of the tibia and lodged beneath the skin.

Without the reaction of inflammation and infection, diagnosis could be made by palpation, but extensive swelling indicates radiography.

Plate 137.

Shrapnel—Plate 137.