Foot, gunshot wound
GC.6225
Foot, Medial half of a right, showing a gunshot wound.
From a soldier wounded in France, 1915. The wound of entrance was on the lateral aspect of the foot, and the missile had passed medially and distally to its exit at the middle of the medial border of the sole. Amputation was performed four months later on account of secondary haemorrhage associated with septic ulceration and necrosis.
At the medial border of the plantar aspect of the foot is an oval sinus With inverted edges and darkly discoloured surface. Section shows a recent clot where the missile had destroyed the head of the talus and part of the tarsal navicular and injured the medial cuneiform bone. The bones in the neighbourhood of the blood clot are stained by old blood pigment.
