A REVIEW OF THE EFFECTS OF GUNSHOT WOUNDS OF THE HEAD

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NEUROLOGIC ASPECTS This report presents some general observations made in a series of 200 cases of wounds of the head, in practically all of which symptoms of injury to the brain was present. While the main purpose is to present a general survey of the cases as a group, certain aspects of the subject deserve more than casual mention. Material.— These two hundred patients represent practically all of the cases of this type under observation at U. S. A. General Hospital No. 11, at Cape May, N. J., from October, 1918, to June, 1919. Of these patients, 88 per cent. suffered from wounds associated with demonstrable defects or fractures of the cranial bones, and 12 per cent. presented brain symptoms without demonstrable cranial injuries. Patients with cranial defects..................... 163 Patients with cranial fractures................... 13 No cranial injury evident........................ 24 It will be seen that most of these patients presented cranial

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