Cleft palate and adenoids : treatment of simple fractures by operation : diseases of joints : operative treatment of cancer : acquired deformities : antrectomyernia, etc. / W. Arbuthnot Lane.

  • Lane, William Arbuthnot, 1856-1943.
Date:
[1900]
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Credit: Cleft palate and adenoids : treatment of simple fractures by operation : diseases of joints : operative treatment of cancer : acquired deformities : antrectomyernia, etc. / W. Arbuthnot Lane. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    cavity cut in and beneatli the anterior inferior spinous process. The acetabular cavity, or rather the place corresponding to it, was rendered as free from the tubercular material as possible. A plug of iodoform gauze was inserted. The photographs were taken on July 6th, two months after the operation. Fig. 161 represents the boy holding the thigh flexed. The long exposure has resulted in some blurring of the outline, the boy having moved slightly. Fig. 162 indicates the amount of passive flexion of which the joint was capable. The photographs also show that the ad- duction of the joint, which originally increased the deformity very considerably, has been completely removed. Figs. 163, 164, and 165 illustrate the condition of a child, A. W—, set. 4^ years, operated on on February 19th, 1897, in which the disease producing the deformity had been cured for a considerable time. When five weeks old he had an acute inflammation of the hip-joint, which resulted in the bursting of a large abscess in the upper limit of the inner aspect of the thigh, where the cicatrix can be seen in the photograph, and in the dislocation of the upper end of the femur upwards and backwards on to the dorsum ilii, where the trochanter was within a couple of fingers' breadth from the crest. The child before the operation was only able to get about in the most clumsy way imaginable, the leg being three and a quarter inches shorter than its fellow, and a mere flail. Walking exercise was quite out of the ques- tion. The operative procedure was that already described.