The hanging ears
and the skin of the forehead were successfully restored to their
proper position. The patient had no bad symptoms and little pain,
and the shock was slight. Where the periosteum had sloughed the
bone was granulating, and at the time of the report skin-grafting
was shortly to be tried.
Schaeffer has presented quite an extensive article on
scalp-injuries in which grafting and transplantation has been
used, and besides reporting his own he mentions several other
cases. One was that of a young lady of twenty- four. While at
work under a revolving shaft in a laundry the wind blew her hair
and it was caught in the shaft. The entire skull was laid bare
from the margin of the eyelids to the neck. The nasal bones were
uncovered and broken, exposing the superior nasal meatus. The
skin of the eyelids was removed from within three mm. of their
edges. The lower margin of the wound was traceable from the lower
portion of the left external process of the frontal bone,
downward and backward below the left ear (which was entirely
removed), thence across the neck, five cm. below the superior
curved line of the occipital bone, and forward through the lower
one-third of the right auricle to the right external angular
process of the frontal bone and margin of the right upper eyelid,
across the lid, nose, and left eyelid, to the point of
commencement.
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