Gunshot injuries : how they are inflicted : their complications and treatment . -65. Fig. 20.—Lesion by conoidal amputated limb. No. 3245 A. Specimen from Civil War,1861-65. happened to collide with a resistant bone, like the diaphysis of thehumerus or femur, the destructive appearance, as already stated,resembled the effects of an explosion having taken place from withinand the pathologic condition was generally described in the literatureof gunshot wounds under the term of Wounds Having Explosive Ef-fects. The characteristic lesions were notably seen in the proximalranges
Gunshot injuries : how they are inflicted : their complications and treatment . -65. Fig. 20.—Lesion by conoidal amputated limb. No. 3245 A. Specimen from Civil War,1861-65. happened to collide with a resistant bone, like the diaphysis of thehumerus or femur, the destructive appearance, as already stated,resembled the effects of an explosion having taken place from withinand the pathologic condition was generally described in the literatureof gunshot wounds under the term of Wounds Having Explosive Ef-fects. The characteristic lesions were notably seen in the proximalranges—from the muzzle up to about 350 yards. Except for closeshots at contact or nearly so, the wound of entrance presented nospecial features. When it was located in skin overlying bone, as over 38 GUNSHOT WOUNDS the tibia, bony sand was noted at the wound of entrance in a cer-tain proportion of the cases. The point of impact against resistantbone showed loss of substance, the bone was finely comminuted, andradiating from this point larger spiculse of bone, some entirely de-.
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