Rifle—Plate 14.
UPPER EXTREMITY.
Gunshot Fracture of the Humerus,
with Lodgment of the Missile.
The missile was a fragment of a ricocheted rifle ball, with a part of the lead core carried in a portion of the jacket. The course was from before, backward, striking the humerus in lower third, and leaving particles of lead along its trade.
The wound was only slightly infected. Several detached fragments of bone have been removed.
The treatment in such cases is conservative, with management of the infection and without formal search for the projectile.
The results in such cases are favorable with some shortening of the bone.
Plate 15.
