Skull Fractures

Typed case summary relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 23 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound to head involving compound fracture of skull and contusional injury of underlying brain; dysphasia; and monoparesis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 19 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: scalp lacerations with compound fracture of skull. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and charts relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 25 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: compound fracture of skull; and headache. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male airman from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 24 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: mortar fragment wound of head; fracture of skull; considerable damage to underlying brain; and right hemianopia. Nonsurgical and surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 24 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound to the head; compound depressed fractures of the skull; and (?)chronic middle ear infection with slight deafness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male sailor from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 32 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: occipital scalp lacerations; cerebral contusion; fracture of skull; and retrograde and post-traumatic amnesia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and charts relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 26 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: multiple penetrating wounds in body; depressed fracture of skull; and wound infection. Nonsurgical and surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and report relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 35 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: penetrating gunshot wound in skull and left temporal region; dysphasia; right hemiparesis; and hemianopsia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, notes and chart relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 34 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: compound fracture of left frontal sinus; skull defect; and neuralgia in left temple. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male soldier from outside Great Britain aged 24 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: compound skull fracture. No treatment given. Patient discharged.