. Minor and operative surgery, including bandaging . Biers osteoplastic amputation of the Biers osteoplastic amputation of leg. the leg, with osteoperiosteal flap in position. by this method, an oval flap, composed of the skin andcellular tissue of one-half of the width of the leg, is dis-sected to the point where the bones are to be divided, carebeing taken not to injure the periosteum. A rectangularflap of the periosteum, large enough to cover the sawnsurface of the tibia and fibula, is next marked out by in-cisions, the longitudinal incisions extending a little beyondthe anterior edge of th
. Minor and operative surgery, including bandaging . Biers osteoplastic amputation of the Biers osteoplastic amputation of leg. the leg, with osteoperiosteal flap in position. by this method, an oval flap, composed of the skin andcellular tissue of one-half of the width of the leg, is dis-sected to the point where the bones are to be divided, carebeing taken not to injure the periosteum. A rectangularflap of the periosteum, large enough to cover the sawnsurface of the tibia and fibula, is next marked out by in-cisions, the longitudinal incisions extending a little beyondthe anterior edge of the tibia. The flap is then reflected 486 AMPUTATIONS. about one-half a centimeter from the transverse incision,and a thin lamella of bone is next sawed in an upwarddirection with a fine saw, the saw being turned toward theperiosteum at its upper part to complete the bone flap is turned so as to cover the sawn surface of thebones and secured by a few sutures (Figs. 378, 379). Theamputation is completed by making a circular incision ofthe ti
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