DEPRESSED FRACTURE OF THE SKULL—SUDDEN DEATH, ETC.

Posterior cranial fossa depressed fracture

© 2014 Asian Journal of Neurosurgery | Published by Wolters Kluwer ‐ Medknow small and crowded space and any lesion reducing the volume can elevate the intra-cavitary pressure leading to fourth ventricular compression and hydrocephalus, a mechanism may be responsible for brain stem dysfunction in cases of closed depressed fracture of the posterior fossa. As seen in the present case, early surgi...

Case of Compound Depressed Fracture of Skull

perature 99*8?; one copious stool. 13tli.?Temperature 98-2?. 14th.?Temperature (J8*4?, wound suppurated, feels better. 4 P. M. temperature 99-2?. 15th.?Temperature 98-4? ; sits up in bed, looks cheerful. 4 P. M. temperature 103?, had slight shivering. Kith.?Temperature 100-8?, some swelling and tension?on the left side of the wound, could not sleep last night. 4 p. m. temperature 102-4?, had sl...

Two Cases of Compound Depressed Fracture of the Skull—Recovery

common interest, they are thought to be of sufficient importance to merit description together. In that first to be described, the patient wns abov of ten who some four days after the receipt of his injury was brought in from a neighbouring village, some eight or ten miles off, for treatment. His case is of especial interest on account of its being one of an injury to the Rolatidic area, which,...

A Case of Depressed Fracture of the Skull

A Case of Compound Depressed Fracture of the Skull.—Recovery

ture for some days and hernia cerebri set in. Every morning some brain substance came away and f ungated out of the wound; after ten days it became obvious that certain cerebral symptoms were setting in. She complained of great pain in the head, and giddiness and vomiting, she had lost her memory for visual words that is to say, her visual word dictionary in the angular gyrus was wiped out and ...