Skull Fractures

Typed case summary, correspondence, photographs, chart, reports and autopsy report relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 45 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: laceration; hemiplegia; fractured jaw; fractured sternum; subdural haematoma; intracerebral haemorrhage; trauma to the brain; severe head injury. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 36 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: G.S.W head (gunshot wound to the head); loss of right eye; skull fracture; and skull defect. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, correspondence and notes relating to male soldier from outside Great Britain aged 24 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: fracture of the skull resulting in left carotid-cavernous fistula; epistaxis; optic atrophy; and headache. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male soldier from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 23 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: concussional head injury; fractured skull; vomiting; and right facial paresis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male airman from outside Great Britain aged 28 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; fractured skull and jaw; lacerations; and hip dislocation. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes and chart relating to male air gunner from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 24 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: severe concussional head injury with compound fracture of skull implicating frontal sinuses; scalp lacerations; fractured patella; and scalp neuritis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male sailor from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 20 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: severe concussional head injury; lacerations; fractured skull; hematemesis; and haematoma. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report, notes and charts relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 20 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound to the head with resultant depressed fracture of left occiput and loss of substance of left occipital lobe; vomiting; and right hemianopsia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and chart relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 23 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: depressed fracture of skull; abscess formation; subsequent right homonymous hemianopia; and "petit mal" attacks. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 19 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: slight cicatricial scalp neuritis; depressed fracture of skull; headaches; and slight hyperaesthesia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.