. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. >!».. 876 DISLOCATIONS. Fro. 457. Mj patient was a well-grown lad sixteen years old who fell while coast-ing on skis, his flexed knee striking against a rail. The patella stoodout from the side, as in Andrewss case, but the physician who soughtto reduce it gave it a half turn, so that when I saw him its outer borderprojected forward well above the level of the condyle, the knee beingin straight extension. I opened the joint widely in front and foundthe internal expansion widely torn and the vastus internus detachedfrom the patella. Both
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. >!».. 876 DISLOCATIONS. Fro. 457. Mj patient was a well-grown lad sixteen years old who fell while coast-ing on skis, his flexed knee striking against a rail. The patella stoodout from the side, as in Andrewss case, but the physician who soughtto reduce it gave it a half turn, so that when I saw him its outer borderprojected forward well above the level of the condyle, the knee beingin straight extension. I opened the joint widely in front and foundthe internal expansion widely torn and the vastus internus detachedfrom the patella. Both condyles projected through the rent, and the lig-araentum patellae was engaged beneath and behind the edge of the outercondyle, effectually preventing reduction until after it had been priedout of its position with an elevator. The patient made a good The symptoms are loss of power to stand upon the limbor actively to move the knee, pain, and deformity. The knee is usuallypartly flexed, but occasionally has been found fully extended. Passi
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