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

LOWER EXTREMITY.
Gunshot Wound of the Heel,
with Lodgment of the Missile.

The course of the bullet was from behind forward through the insertion of the tendo Achillis and its lodgment along the outer border of the os calcis.

There was no injury to the bone. The path of the bullet is shown by the slight mottling above the posterior extremity of the os calcis.

The nose of the bullet is slightly deformed by ricochet at long range.

The very slight penetration and the slight deformity of the nose of the bullet indicates a velocity of extreme range of both impact of the ricochet and of the wound.

The sharp outline of fibula and the base of fifth metatarsal shows the fibula to be next to the plate. The only slight enlargement and square base of the shadow of the bullet show it to be parallel to the plate, or at right angles to the line of projection, and thus indicate its position to be on the fibula side of the os calcis, below the tip of the external malleolus.

Plate 74.

Rifle—Plate 74.