抄録
This clinical study concerns forty-three cases of brain injury (acquired in the world war 1937-1945) in which the causative alien substances remain. The alien substances were in some cases shell or bullet fragments and in other cases bone fragments. These cases have been followed for ten to twenty years.
11) The alien substances are in the frontal lobe in 7 cases, parietal lobe 14 cases, tempora obe 8 cases, occipital lobe in 4 cases, and in the brain stem in 10 cases.
The site of lodgment did not always correspond to the area of entry.
2) In 45.5% of the cases the wounds were from splinters of bullet or shell, 27% were blind bullet wounds, 14% were piercing bullet wounds.
3) Residual clinical symptoms were: hemiplegia 63%, disturbance of sensation 49%, aphasic 35%, defect of visual field 22%, disturbance of deep sensation 14%, ataxia 14%, amblyopia 5%.
