The practice of surgery . fixationand abduction in a plaster Fig. 601.—Fracture of the thigh. Extension strips applied, covered by applied; two straps and pad in ham iScudder). Fracture of the shaft of the femur is the fracture of this bonenext in importance to fracture of the neck of the femur. These shaftfractures are generally oblique, and occur in three favorite locations:(1) Just below the lesser trochanter; (2) at the center of the shaft, and(3) above the condyles. Such fractures are always due to great violence,the shaft of the femur being extremely resistant
The practice of surgery . fixationand abduction in a plaster Fig. 601.—Fracture of the thigh. Extension strips applied, covered by applied; two straps and pad in ham iScudder). Fracture of the shaft of the femur is the fracture of this bonenext in importance to fracture of the neck of the femur. These shaftfractures are generally oblique, and occur in three favorite locations:(1) Just below the lesser trochanter; (2) at the center of the shaft, and(3) above the condyles. Such fractures are always due to great violence,the shaft of the femur being extremely resistant, so that extensive SPK(1AI> FRACTUUES AND THEIR TREATMENT 901 damage to the soft parts often is cuused even when the fracture is not compoum .^^ find the patient with a fractured femoral shaft lying help-less often in shock and pain; the leg rolled inward or outward, andthethigh deformed by a marked swelling, while crepitus is surgeon should measure such a leg to determine its shortemngrelative to the shortening of the sound leg. Measure from the
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