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TO THE EDITOR:— In The Journal, Sept. 26, page 405, in the article "Emergency Care of Extradural Hematoma," Drs. Craig and Hunt describe a procedure which they recommend for the general surgeon who may have to treat this surgical emergency in the absence of neurosurgical help. After the temporal fossa has been opened and the clot evacuated, bleeding may not be controllable except by packing the foramen spinosum. This maneuver may not be possible for the surgeon untrained in neurosurgery, but the general surgeon can readily find and ligate the external carotid artery in the neck, which serves the same purpose. |
