A Case of Compound Depressed Fracture of the Skull.—Recovery
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ture for some days and hernia cerebri set in. Every morning some brain substance came away and f ungated out of the wound; after ten days it became obvious that certain cerebral symptoms were setting in. She complained of great pain in the head, and giddiness and vomiting, she had lost her memory for visual words that is to say, her visual word dictionary in the angular gyrus was wiped out and objects shown to her which she knew she could not name. The wound was dre-sed with oil silk and syringed out daily with sterile warm water.
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دوره 37 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016