CHEST WOUNDS IN BATTLE CASUALTIES

The crush syndrome in battle casualties.

War Wounds and Air Raid Casualties

Articles republished from The ' British Medical Journal '. Contributed by St. J. D. Buxton, E. M. Cowell, C. Frankau, G. E. Gask, A. T. Hart, G. Jefferson, W. A. Lethem, D. D. Logan, P. H. Mitchiner, G. E. IMeligan, C. M. Page, J. Rickman, C. Seeley, G. Gordon-Taylor, J. M. Vaughan, J. M. Weddell, M. B. Wright. 1939. H. K. Lewis and Company, Limited, London. Pp. xii plus 256. Illustrated. Price...

Penetrating Wounds of the Chest.

The immediate effects depend on the size, shape, type, velocity and track of the missile. A high velocity rifle or machine-gun bullet entering the chest through an intercostal space and making its way out through a posterior space may occasion, apart from the initial shock, little disability and with luck no complications. A small more slowly moving vulnerant may produce a punctured wound such ...

Pasteurella multocida chest wall abscess without wounds

A 79-year-old Japanese man presented to our hospital with an 18day history of fever and right-sided chest pain. The patient had undergone surgery for rectal cancer 2 years previously. Although he had three pet cats in his home, he had no history of cat bites, scratches, or licks. On examination, his blood pressure was 92/57 mmHg and temperature was 37.1 °C; a soft subcutaneous mass without obvi...

An analysis of 2811 chest casualties of the Korean conflict.

In this paper we present an analysis of the 2811 chest casualties of the Korean Conflict which were treated at Tokyo Army Hospital between the beginning of the war and March 1953. A previous report covering 1535 of these casualties has been published.21 However, this paper adds more than 1000 cases and contains data w hich was not available at the time of the previous report. Some conclusions a...