A textbook of obstetrics . and thrombosis of the neck-muscles, with reactive inflammation, most frequently of thesternocleidomastoid, with the development of torticollis. Thissort of wry-neck usually recovers without treatment. Fracture, Dislocation, or Decapitation.—The author has beentold the details by eye-witnesses of three cases in which the headwas pulled off after version. In each instance Cesarean sectionwas done to extract the head. The women all died. Crani-. Fig. 612.—Child in face presentation. 804 THE NEW-BORN INFANT. otomy should obviously have been the operation for the extrac-t
A textbook of obstetrics . and thrombosis of the neck-muscles, with reactive inflammation, most frequently of thesternocleidomastoid, with the development of torticollis. Thissort of wry-neck usually recovers without treatment. Fracture, Dislocation, or Decapitation.—The author has beentold the details by eye-witnesses of three cases in which the headwas pulled off after version. In each instance Cesarean sectionwas done to extract the head. The women all died. Crani-. Fig. 612.—Child in face presentation. 804 THE NEW-BORN INFANT. otomy should obviously have been the operation for the extrac-tion of the head. There is occasionally injury to the cervical spine and to thelarynx and trachea, in consequence of the excessive twisting of the neck that occurs when the occiput turns forward from aposterior position and the shoulders do not follow the movementof the head. Limbs.—Fractures, which are usually a separation of diaph-ysis and epiphysis, require, in the case of the lower extremities,surgical fixation, extension, and a plaster bandage. In the caseof the arms, fixation in the Velpeau position by a jacket withonly one arm-hole, for the sound arm. Union is prompt. Frac-tures are usually the result of fault}- management on the physi-cians part, but they may be spontaneous. Avulsion of the
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