Gunshot injuries : how they are inflicted : their complications and treatment . contact or only a few feet from the muzzle by the high-power militaryrifles of the present. (Fig. 132.) From the amount of fragmentationof the osseous structures, laceration of the soft parts and the largerskin wounds, these wounds are the most dangerous variety of jointinjury, because of the presence and spread of infection which is almostinevitable in war wounds, especially in active campaign. GUNSHOT WOUNDS OF JOINTS 325 Symptoms of Wounds of Joints.—The first and almost invariableresult of gunshot of a joint is
Gunshot injuries : how they are inflicted : their complications and treatment . contact or only a few feet from the muzzle by the high-power militaryrifles of the present. (Fig. 132.) From the amount of fragmentationof the osseous structures, laceration of the soft parts and the largerskin wounds, these wounds are the most dangerous variety of jointinjury, because of the presence and spread of infection which is almostinevitable in war wounds, especially in active campaign. GUNSHOT WOUNDS OF JOINTS 325 Symptoms of Wounds of Joints.—The first and almost invariableresult of gunshot of a joint is the appearance of effusion composed ofsynovial fluid and blood which increases for the first twenty-fourhours. In the less severe cases, under quiet and fixation of the limb,absorption will take place infrom two to four weeks. Ageneral rise of temperature willusually appear during this timefrom absorption of fibrin fermentin the effused blood or, as has re-cently been suggested, from thepresence of staphylococcusalbus. This rise in tempera-ture is transient and slight and.
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