PUNCTURED WOUND ENTERING THE SPINAL CANAL.

A Punctured Wound of the Abdomen

in the abdominal cavity was somewhat circular and about 1 in. in diameter. Through this opening about 18 inches of the small intestines with mesentery and also a portion of the great omentum had protruded. The accident took place at 4 p.m. and the boy was brought to me at 10 p.m. The viscera were wrapped in dirty rags and were tied on the abdomen. His temperature was 102?, pulse weak, eyes sunk...

Punctured Wound of the Leg, &c.

?was admitted, on the 24th April, 18G8, into the Mymensingh Charitable Dispensary, with a recently inflicted wound in the upper part of the left leg, just below, and to the outer side of, the outer edge of the patella. Through this wound was projecting, about 5 of an inch, the pointed extremity of the iron head of a kooch, (a spear used in bundles by the natives for killing fish, the long shaft...

Multiple spinal canal meningiomas.

Three cases of multiple spinal canal meningiomas are presented, bringing the total number of documented cases in the American literature to nine. While the exact incidence of multiple spinal meningiomas is difficult to determine, their possible occurrence warrants careful myelographic examination of the whole spinal canal, particularly if multiple clinical levels are present. When a complete bl...

[extradural Cysts of the Spinal Canal].

The spinal canal in cervical spondylosis.

Cervical spondylosis was defined by Brain (1948), by Brain, Northfield, and Wilkinson (1952), and by Frykholm (1951). Its essential features are protrusion of the annulus fibrosus and changes in the adjacent vertebral margins. The size of the cervical spinal canal may play a major part in the neurological manifestations of cervical spondylosis. The antero-posterior diameters of the cervical can...