Fibrous stricture of the small intestine following strangulated hernia

✍ Scribed by Hugh C. Barry

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1942
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 643 KB
• Volume: 30
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.18003011709

✦ Synopsis

Pig r.-No protection. In sea from 12.53 p.m. to 1.18 p.m. Killed 11 min. after exposure to depth charge. Post-mortem examination about 4 hr. later. No signs of external injury. Eyes normal. No bleeding from orifices. No haemorrhage in skin, subcutaneous tissues, or muscles. Well-nourished animal, with thick abdominal and thoracic walls and a good layer of fat (at least I in. thick). Heart: A little clear pericardial fluid. Pericardium, myocardium, valves, papillary muscles normal. No air in cavities. No displacement of heart. In systole. Large blood-vessels normal.

Lungs : Moderate-sized haemorrhages (about 0.5 to I cm. diam.) at margins of right upper, middle, and lower lobes, and left upper lobe, with scattered petechiae some little distance in from pleura in all lobes. Hilar regions free from change. No petechiae in walls of bronchi or trachea, no blood-clot in these. No obvious emphysema. Pleural cavities free from blood or air.

Liver : Normal.