. Minor and operative surgery, including bandaging . Amputation of a finger by the long palmar flap. (After Esmaech.) as possible of the finger, the former method is generally tobe employed instead of disarticulation at a higher incision should be so planned that the cicatrix doesnot occupy the palmar surface ; the larger flap should,therefore, be taken from the palmar aspect of the amputating the phalanges of the fingers in their con-tinuity, the circular method (Fig. 396, B) or a short AMPUTATION OF THE FINGER. 495 dorsal flap and a long palmar flap may be employed. Indis
. Minor and operative surgery, including bandaging . Amputation of a finger by the long palmar flap. (After Esmaech.) as possible of the finger, the former method is generally tobe employed instead of disarticulation at a higher incision should be so planned that the cicatrix doesnot occupy the palmar surface ; the larger flap should,therefore, be taken from the palmar aspect of the amputating the phalanges of the fingers in their con-tinuity, the circular method (Fig. 396, B) or a short AMPUTATION OF THE FINGER. 495 dorsal flap and a long palmar flap may be employed. Indisarticulating a phalanx it is best to enter the joint with anarrow knife from the dorsal side, and after havingcarried it through the joint, to cut a long palmar flap,keeping close to the bone (Fig. 392). In locating theposition of the phalangeal joints, it is well to remember thatthe prominence of the knuckle when the finger is flexed isformed entirely of the head of the proximal and not of the Fig. 393. Fig
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