Skull Fractures

Typed case summary relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 29 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wounds to head, face and chest; associated hesitancy in speech; mild anxiety neurosis; and depressed fracture of skull. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and charts relating to male prisoner of war from outside Great Britain aged 38 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: fungus cerebri; cerebral abscess; depressed fracture of skull; shrapnel wounds to head, back, and left leg; and complete right homonymous hemianopia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 23 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: probable crush injury of skull with petrous bone fracture; facial palsy; nerve paresis; and concussional brain injury. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male soldier aged 21 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot to skull; and depressed left anterior parietal fracture. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male soldier aged 25 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: penetrating compound fracture of skull (depressed left fronto-parietal region). No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male prisoner of war from outside Great Britain aged 27 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: compound fracture of skull; and post-traumatic epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 35 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: compound fracture of skull (left frontal region); severe contusion; loss of brain substance; and anosmia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male airman aged 25 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: concussional head injury; scalp lacerations; fracture of base of skull; and peripheral left facial palsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and charts relating to male soldier from outside Great Britain aged 50 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: compound fracture of skull (right frontal region); scalp lacerations; small skull defect; and diplopia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report, autopsy report, correspondence and chart relating to male sailor from outside Great Britain aged 36 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: head injury involving linear fracture of occipital region; contre-coup lacerations; intracerebral haemorrhage into right temporal lobe; and generalised cerebral oedema. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.