STAB WOUND OF THE HEART

A Case of Stab Wound of the Heart

By S. S. SEN, m.b. (Cal.), f.r.c.s. (Edin.), Assistant Medical Superintendent, General Hospital> Rangoon. A young Mohamedan male was stabbed in ^ thorax in a street nearby and was brought at once the hospital. As he was bleeding profusely he wa given morphia ? grain with 1/100 grain atropine, Pu. under chloroform, and operated on at once. The usna^ hinge-flap incision was made and the vertical ...

Complex cardiac stab wound.

Stab Wound of Enlarged Spleen

A penetrating orbitocranial stab wound.

An unusual case of intracranial penetration of a bread knife through the orbit is described. Despite the proximity of the blade to the internal carotids, the optic nerves and chiasm, and the pituitary the patient survived with only a minimal field defect affecting the eye opposite to the entry site; otherwise no neurological or endocrine deficit was evident.

[On 2 cases of stab wound. Slash wound and stab channel with window formation].