. Minor and operative surgery, including bandaging . Skiagraph of fracture of tibia and fibula. nature, which is known as an a>ray burn. The skin,several weeks after exposure to the rays, may becomeulcerated, the nails may be lost, and a very intractableform of ulceration or gangrene develop. SKIAGRAPHY. 181 The rr-rays are of great value in locating foreignbodies, such as needles, pins, bullets, and pieces ofglass. They are employed also with advantage in locat-ing mineral calculi in the bladder, ureter, and are also useful in detecting the presence of frae- Fig. Multiple
. Minor and operative surgery, including bandaging . Skiagraph of fracture of tibia and fibula. nature, which is known as an a>ray burn. The skin,several weeks after exposure to the rays, may becomeulcerated, the nails may be lost, and a very intractableform of ulceration or gangrene develop. SKIAGRAPHY. 181 The rr-rays are of great value in locating foreignbodies, such as needles, pins, bullets, and pieces ofglass. They are employed also with advantage in locat-ing mineral calculi in the bladder, ureter, and are also useful in detecting the presence of frae- Fig. Multiple fracture of patella. (Newcomet.) tures and dislocations. In fractures about the joints,epiphyseal separations, and ununited fractures, their usehas proved most satisfactory. Very satisfactory resultshave recently been obtained in the treatment of super-ficial malignant growths and lupus and inoperable forms 182 MINOR SURGERY. of carcinoma and sarcoma by frequent short expos-ures to the arrays. Skiagraphs of fractures are shownin Figs. 152,154, and 155; of a bullet in the wrist-joint in Fig. 156.
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