A Case of Causalgia Cured by Sympathectomy
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چکیده
Sarah E., aged 30, was shot through the lower tlhird of the forearm by a sniper's bullet during the disturbances in Belfast in 1921. She was admitted to the Mater Infirmorum Hospital on the same (lay (July, 1921). The bullet had entered obliquely, grazed the median nlerve, fractured the radius, and come out on the dorsal surface of the forearm. The woutnd was excised, the fracture splinted, and the patient was detained in hospital for three weeks. She afterwards attended the out-patient departmenit for dressinig, lher wounids being completely lhealed in a few weeks.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Ulster Medical Journal
دوره 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008