Identifier: americanjournroen08ameruoft (find matches)
Title: The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Radium Society American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: Radiotherapy X-rays
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. C.C. Thomas
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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posterior and 9.75cm. superior to the external meatus acus-ticus, Reids base line being taken as a guideto these measurements. The anatomical loca-tion of the above foreign body correspondsto the left inferior parietal lobule, beingimbedded a little over i cm. within the brainsubstance. The location corresponds to Sec-tion 4 of the Eycle.shymer-Shoemaker CrossSection Anatomy, being 3.5 cm. from theposterior surface and 2.7 cm. from thelateral side. A small metal fragment al^out i mm. indiameter is seen superficially in the skin orbone, posterior to the bony defect. Anothervery small fragment is imbedded in thebrain substance in the path to the largermetal fragment. Three small fragments arealso present in the right facial region. Upon examination of the thoracic spineno injury was found, but a foreign body waspresent in the upper part of the right chest,which, however, was not localized. Comments.—In a letter dated March 15,1920, from the father of this patient, he WftR(of\-LoBui-E
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stated that his son died on July 19, 1919,eight days after the foreign body was re-moved. Surgical removal was necessary dueto Jacksonian epileptic attacks. This case isinteresting in that the patient was dis-charged from the army a little over a monthbefore the operation and gave no history ofJacksonian epilepsy and with a diagnosisof a complete recovery. Case VII. Admitted to hospital, April 10, Gunshot Injuries to the Brain 455 1919, suffering from a gunshot wound ofthe head, having been transferred fromover-seas. White; age twenty-two; weight 165pounds; occupation, farmer before enteringthe service. On July 22, 1919, he was hitby high explosive at Soissons. He remem-bers nothing about the accident. For a monthfollowing the accident he could not talk, hadno paralysis except anesthesia over the af-fected side of the head and complete deaf-ness in left ear. Later a bone transplant wasplaced in the skull to fill the defect but hadto be removed on account of infection. Upon admission h

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