The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . Fl 497.—Lines of Section iaSayres Operation for Anky-losis of Hip-joint. 330 DISEASE OF THE HIP-JOINT. bone is effected after its exposure, by means of the chain saw ; thetransverse section being first made, the convex one next (Fig. 498).. Fig. 498.—Application of Chain Saw in Sayres Operation. W. Adams has devised a much more simple operation, having in viewthe same objects. His plan is to divide suhcutaneously the neck of thethigh-bone about its centre. Tliis idea he put in practice in Decembe
The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . Fl 497.—Lines of Section iaSayres Operation for Anky-losis of Hip-joint. 330 DISEASE OF THE HIP-JOINT. bone is effected after its exposure, by means of the chain saw ; thetransverse section being first made, the convex one next (Fig. 498).. Fig. 498.—Application of Chain Saw in Sayres Operation. W. Adams has devised a much more simple operation, having in viewthe same objects. His plan is to divide suhcutaneously the neck of thethigh-bone about its centre. Tliis idea he put in practice in December,1869, when he performed the first subcutaneous section of the neck ofthe femur for the relief of deformity resulting from angular ank^ operation is done as follows. The tenotome having been intro-duced a little above the top of the great trochanter, is carried straightdown to tlie neck of the femur, dividing the muscles and opening thecapsule freel3\ The knife being withdrawn, a savv of this size (Fig. 499),set in a strong angular handle, is passed down to the bone, which is cutthrough from before backwards (Fig. 500). The section of the bone
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