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 144.

LOWER EXTREMITY.
Gunshot Fracture of the Left Fibula.

This is another example of the condition, shown in [plate 143], in which a shrapnel hall or similar missile is disintegrated by ricochet before a fleeting the wound.

By comparison of the shadows of the missiles with the shadows of the portion of the localizing wire lying nearer the plate (shown more deeply and distinctly), and with the portion lying in front of the leg, it can be concluded that the fragments lie superficially in front of the bones.

A slight fissure fracture of the fibula may be seen in the upper portion of the plate.

Plate 145.