. Operative surgery. if the tissues connecting them be not toothick; if such be the case, great difficulty is often experienced in healingthe divided surfaces, owing to the tendency to reunion at the point of junc-tion. To obivate this, various expedients have been recommended, one ofwhich (Eudtlorffer) is to introduce a rubber seton at the base of the mal-formation on a line with the normal web of the hand, and allow it to remainuntil the opening becomes permanent (Fig. 681), when the remainingportion is divided and the borders united by sutures. The employment ofa lead, silver, or gold butto
. Operative surgery. if the tissues connecting them be not toothick; if such be the case, great difficulty is often experienced in healingthe divided surfaces, owing to the tendency to reunion at the point of junc-tion. To obivate this, various expedients have been recommended, one ofwhich (Eudtlorffer) is to introduce a rubber seton at the base of the mal-formation on a line with the normal web of the hand, and allow it to remainuntil the opening becomes permanent (Fig. 681), when the remainingportion is divided and the borders united by sutures. The employment ofa lead, silver, or gold button has been practiced with a similar plan (Dec) is to make a short triangular flap of the entire thicknessof the web at its posterior portion, the base corresponding in shape and sizeto the space between the knuckles, and the apex directed to the free edge ofthe abnormal attachment. The flap is raised and turned aside, the fingerskept widely separated, until the cicatrization of the flap is followed by. Webbed fingers.
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