This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ... the bone has broken, unnecessary manipulation should be avoided, but the limb should be put in a slightly over-corrected position, and, after an aseptic dressing has been applied, a plaster-of-Paris bandage should be put on to hold the leg in this position. But little pain follows the operation. No change of dressing ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ... the bone has broken, unnecessary manipulation should be avoided, but the limb should be put in a slightly over-corrected position, and, after an aseptic dressing has been applied, a plaster-of-Paris bandage should be put on to hold the leg in this position. But little pain follows the operation. No change of dressing is needed; the plaster may be removed in three or four weeks, another reapplied, and in six weeks or more the patient allowed to stand on the limbs. Sometimes, when the deformity lies chiefly in the head of the tibia, the operation of osteotomy may be performed there either alone or in connection with femoral osteotomy. The removal of a wedge of bone is rarely necessary from either the femur or tibia in cases of knockknee, except in very unusual cases. However, the operation described above is the one to be performed. Osteoclasis is less suited to the correction of knock-knee, because it lacks the precision of the osteotomy, and where a fracture near the joint is required the definite location of the fracture is desirable, which is to be accomplished best by the cutting. BOW-LEGS. In bow-legs the legs are most often bowed with convexity outward. This deformity is the reverse of knock-knee, and is termed genu varum. It is single or double, generally the latter, and may exceptionally exist in one leg when knock-knee is present in the other. The curve is most often a gradual and uniform bowing of the femur and tibia, so that with the feet together the outline of the legs forms an oval which in severe cases approaches a circle. A second class of cases presents a bowing chiefly in the lower third of the tibia which is more angular in character, and the femurs are practically normal; a third class presents, either alone or in conjunction with the ot...
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1911, William Wood
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1st. edition/1911
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Viii, 410 p., illus, ; foredge stain, early leaves. Orthopedic Surgery, 1911-1st. ed.; Bradford, Edward H. & Robert W. Lovett--a condensed handbook for the use of students & practicioners embodying a brief statement of the generally accepted opinions as to the nature & treatment of the affection under conside.
