| Abstrakt: |
This case illustrates a rather rare type of fracture, and incidentally shows a complicating spinal anomaly which has not produced symptoms and which is of some medicolegal interest.REPORT OF CASEE. W., a youth, aged 17 years and 8 months, employed as a yard messenger by a railroad company, was sent home from work, April 10, 1924, because of extreme pain in the region of the left groin. He was referred to me by Dr. W. D. Middleton, who thought from the severity of the pain manifested by the lad that he had ruptured a viscus.The youth was of athletic build, about 5 feet, 10 inches (178 cm.) tall, and lay on his back in bed with the head and chest slightly elevated on a pillow. He complained bitterly of pain in the left groin, but said he was fairly comfortable as long as he did not move. |
