Stab-wounds and other penetrating injuries of the abdomen and thorax

Stab - wounds and other penetrating injuries of the abdomen and thorax J . B . GARLAND

A series of 100 penetrating wounds of the abdomen and thorax is reviewed. Eighty-three were due to stab-wounds. The recent increase in incidence is confirmed and the distribution throughout the day and months of the year is given. The results and methods of treatment of thirtysix abdominal, ten thoraco-abdominal and thirtyseven thoracic wounds are given and described. An operative approach to a...

Stab-wounds and other penetrating injuries of the abdomen and thorax.

A series of 100 penetrating wounds of the abdomen and thorax is reviewed. Eighty-three were due to stab-wounds. The recent increase in incidence is confirmed and the distribution throughout the day and months of the year is given. The results and methods of treatment of thirtysix abdominal, ten thoraco-abdominal and thirtyseven thoracic wounds are given and described. An operative approach to a...

On Wounds of the Thorax and Abdomen

man having been shot through the body, while bloody sputa seemed to prove the fact, and in reality rendered the same measures, to a certain extent, necessary. Ball or bayonet wounds of the thoracic integuments require great attention from the danger of inflammation spreading to the pleura, or subjacent viscera, or of troublesome abscesses forming. " When a ball (says this able surgeon) has frac...

Penetrating Wounds of the Abdomen

Stab wounds penetrating the left atrium.

A stab wound penetrating the left atrium (excluding the left auricle) would have to penetrate through other chambers of the heart or through the great arteries at their origin from the heart to reach the left atrium from the front of the chest. Such wounds would be fatal, the patient dying from profuse haemorrhage within a few minutes. A stab wound through the back of the chest could reach the ...