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INFECTIVE COMPLICATIONS OF HEAD BATTLE CASUALTIES
Article first published online: 21 JAN 2008
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1942.tb02901.x
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Miller, D. (1942), INFECTIVE COMPLICATIONS OF HEAD BATTLE CASUALTIES. Aust. N.Z. J. Surg., 12: 53–63. doi: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1942.tb02901.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 14 JUN 2010
- Article first published online: 21 JAN 2008
- Accepted for publication on May 6, 1942.
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Summary
Fifty cases of open head wounds sustained in a Western Desert battle are discussed. This is probably one of the largest series of such cases collected in this war. The peculiar conditions of the campaign resulted in a high incidence of infection.
The types of infected wounds are discussed: (1) Infection of scalp wounds and its consequences. (2) Infection of skull fractures. (3) Infections in the brain: (a) infected tracks, (b) abscesses.
Some individual cases of abscess are reported in detail.