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

Rifle—Plate 66.

LOWER EXTREMITY.
Gunshot Fracture of the Middle of the Tibia,
with Lodgment of the Missile.

The course of the bullet was transverse, from without inward, striking on the side of the shaft of the tibia.

The bullet was so badly damaged by ricochet that only a portion of it was the cause of this wound.

The range was short, if not close, as the missile after striking a resisting object with force enough to break itself retained enough energy in a fragment of less than half its mass to cause a long fissure fracture, with the separation of smaller fragments.

The treatment is noninterference, except for infection, which, contrary to what might be expected from presumable contamination from the object from which it ricocheted, does not occur more frequently in ricochet than direct wounds with lodgment of the projectile.

Plate 67.

Rifle—Plate 67.