RT Journal
A1 BAUMAN GI, LOWER WE
T1 REcovery from rupture of kidney and fracture of pelvis
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD May 1
VO LII
IS 18
SP 1401
OP 1402
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.25420440029003
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.25420440029003
AB Patient. 
    —A boy, aged 17, was first seen about 3 p. m. Nov. 3, 1908. He had been thrown and dragged some distance in a collision between his wagon and a street car.Examination. 
    —Patient had been given morphin, gr. ¼, and was resting quietly. He had no severe pain, breathing was regular; pulse was 88, regular, rhythmic, and of good volume. There were numerous skin abrasions over the lower back, left thigh and knee; none in left kidney region; some swelling was apparent just below the crest of the left ilium, which latter showed preternatural mobility, with crepitus and considerable pain on manipulation. Apparently there was a transverse fracture just below the crest. The patient was examined for other injuries but none was found. He had not voided urine so that diagnosis of injury in the urinary tract was held in abeyance. The left side of the pelvis was