Head Wounds: Amputations

Prognosis for gunshot wounds to the head.

Epilepsy after missile wounds of the head.

Two hundred and thirty-seven Nigerians with missile head injury were treated at the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan, between July 1964 and January 1970. Among the 165 of these patients who have been followed up for over a year, the incidence of epilepsy has been 11·4%, 18·75%, and 33·3% in a follow-up period ranging between one to two years, two to three years, and three to five years ...

Missile wounds of the femoral head in children.

' 2005 AMC MØdia Inc. M trauma in children is uncommon, but its incidence has risen over the past decade primarily owing to the increased availability of guns and the many armed conflicts occurring in various parts of the world. Such injuries in children are frequently compounded by damage to the adjacent physes, resulting in complete or partial growth arrest. Treatment of such osseous injury m...

Prosthetics / Amputations

The technique of hydrogen clearance has been used in five canines to monitor blood flow in gastrocnemius muscle following sympathectomy. The contralateral nonsympathectomized limb was used as a control . Average blood flow was based on 22 pairs of desaturation data . Average blood flow in the left control limb was 6.08 ± 2 .22 ml/min/100g tissue and the right sympathectomized limb was 9.54 ± 3 ...

Head Injury from Antiquity to the Present with Special Reference to Penetrating Head Wounds

animals. Here they present evidence for interneuronal mechanisms within the ventrobasal thalamus. This provides an anatomical substrate for the numerous excitatory, inhibitory, and recurrent collateral mechanisms delineated neurophysiologically by D. Purpura, and by T. Frigyesi and R. Schwartz. A grand overview of the role of cerebral cortex in the modulation of input to the medial thalamus at ...