Plate 28.
Rifle—Plate 28.
UPPER EXTREMITY.
Gunshot Fracture of the Radius.
The course of this bullet was anteroposterior and diagonally from above downward through the shaft, punching out one side of the shaft and effecting a diagonal fracture through the bone with only slight displacement. The wound was infected.
The radiograph was taken during the course of treatment, after the several small fragments found by the punched-out portion of the bone were removed. A small drainage tube is in the wound, but the size of the forearm shows that the reaction is very moderate.
The treatment is that of a simple fracture, except for the indications to be met in the control of infection.
Plate 29.