CHAPTER VII

INJURIES TO THE HEAD AND NECK

Anatomical lesions--Scalp wounds--Fracture of the skull without evidence

of gross lesion of the brain--Fractures with concurrent brain

injury--Classification--General injuries--Effect of ricochet--Vertical

or coronal wounds in frontal region--Glancing or oblique wounds of any

region--Gutter fractures--Superficial perforating fractures--Fractures

of the base--Symptoms of fracture of the skull, with concurrent injury

to the brain--Concussion--Compression--Irritation--Frontal

injuries--Fronto-parietal and parietal injuries--Occipital

injuries--Forms of hemianopsia--Abscess of the brain--General

diagnosis--General prognosis--Traumatic epilepsy--General

treatment--Wounds of the head not involving the brain--Mastoid

process--Orbit--Globe of the eye--Nose--Malar bone--Upper

jaw--Mandible--Wounds of the neck--Wounds of the pharynx, larynx, and

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