War Surgery in an Indian General Hospital in Mesopotamia

Four Years' Surgery in an Indian General Hospital in Mesopotamia

Surgery in War

" Surgery in War" describes quite ably the most up-to-date surgical methods now being employed in France. What is true of gunshotwounds in France is by no means necessarily true of gunshot-wounds in Mesopotamia and Africa, and those who have served in these varying zones are ready to recognize this. In dry countries with comparatively clean soil the great majority of wounds reach hospital dry a...

Skeletal Sarcoma on the Site of Retained War Bullet Fragments and a Literature Review on Long-Term Complications of Retained War Shells

  Long-term complications of retained war fragments in the body are not completely known. Also, bullet migration and slow resorption of metals and distortion in some imaging modalities are frequent and well recognized complications but, now we are concerned about neoplastic changes near the retained war fragments. We reviewed the literature on complication of retained war fragments and report o...

Traumatic Arterial Spasm

That the arteries undergo spasmodic contraction, when subjected to trauma or concussional violence, is now a well-recognized fact. Called by the French surgeons Stupeui Arterialleand by the German surgeons ' Kroh's Arterial Spasm', the phenomenon was described by Makins (1919) towards the end ot World War I. During World War II, several remarkable instances of the condition were cited from dive...

Diagnosis and surgical management of an intraocular foreign body secondary to ballistic wound in a Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)

Background: Intraocular foreign bodies (IOFBs) such as air gun pellet is a rare finding in wild animals like Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta). The purpose of the present scientific report is to describe the surgical retrieval of IOFB secondary to ballistic wound in a wild Rhesus macaque. Case description: A juvenile female wild Rhesus macaque was brought with the history of swollen and inflamed ...