AFIP_NMHM-1000629
Record
- Holding institution
- Anatomical Collection, NMHM
- Collection
- Armed Forces Institute of Pathology NMHM (USA)
- Sex
- Male
- Age
- 20 years
- Country of origin
- USA
Curator notes
Cranium, Parietal; Civil War Soldier; Tangential GSW; Injury-Jul 12, 1864 Died Jul 28, 1864
Scientific notes
Fracture of endocranial surface resulting from tangential GSW. An example of bone being stronger in compression than in tension.
Provenance
<a href="mailto:Franklin.Damann@us.army.mil">Franklin Damann</a>
1 lesions
fire arm
- Bones
- Cranium
- Side
- Left
- Timing
- Antemortem
- Force
- Direct
- Fracture type
- Tension
Gunshot wound — Possible musket Firearm
Projectile struck the skull obliquely between the sagittal suture and the left parietal protuberance. Soldier survived for 16 days after injury. No cranial fracture detected ectocranially. At autopsy, the inner table was found to be fractured and depressed. This fractured portion is one and a quarter inches in length by three-quarters of an inch in breadth.
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Anatomical Collection, NMHM. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology NMHM (USA). catalogue no. AFIP_NMHM-1000629