Rifle—Plate 25.
UPPER EXTREMITY.
Gunshot Fracture of the Radius.
Wound of entrance, posterior surface of forearm over radius above the middle.
Wound of exit, below and in front of wound of entrance.
The course of the ball in mid range was from behind, forward, and slightly downward.
While the images of both bones of the forearm are superimposed, because they both lay in the plane of the projection of the shadow, it is probable that the radius lay nearer the photographic plate, because the head of the radius is shown in clearer outline. The fragments of the fracture can be seen as related to the outlines of the radius.
There is no displacement and only slight fragmentation, so that the bullet must have almost succeeded in making a punctured wound in the radius.
The treatment in such cases is regularly that for simple fracture, as such wounds are almost always aseptic.
The results are uniformly good.
Plate 26.