Operative reduction of a badly set fracture of a bone by means of the rotation process.

Date:
1927
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Operative reduction of a badly set fracture of a bone by means of the rotation process. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

A longitudinal displacement of a transverse fracture of the humerous (the arm) is reduced by open operation. 1 segment.

Publication/Creation

Germany, 1927.

Physical description

1 encoded moving image (3 min.) : silent, black and white

Duration

00:03:19

Contents

Segment 1 The ends of the bone are exposed. The next stage is rotation and removal of longitudinal displacement, followed by impaction of the end of the bone after one end has been shaped to a point and the other has been drilled out. Finally, the wound is closed by knots tied mechanically with a Fecher-needle. Time start: 00:00:00:00 Time end: 00:03:19:12 Length: 00:03:19:12

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Produced by Prof. Katzenstein and Friedrichshain Hospital, Berlin

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Copyright previously held by British Medical Association and assigned to Wellcome in 2005.

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