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 145.

LOWER EXTREMITY.
Gunshot Fracture of the Fibula,
with Lodgment of the Missile.

The fibular side of the leg lay next to the plate.

The sharp outline, great density, and normal size of the shadow of the shrapnel ball shows the ball almost in contact with the plate.

The metallic particles marking the contact of the ball and the fibula, at the seat of a diagonal fracture, without displacement of fragments, are shown so distinctly that they must also be near the plate.

The course of the ball, therefore, was from without, ranging inward and upward with the slight energy of long (shrapnel) range. The ball lies on the fibular side superficially, just in front of the fibula.

Plate 146.

Shrapnel—Plate 146.