Lectures on orthopedic surgery . iliac -Apparatus for sacro-A leather slingmay be stretched between thebars from waist to hips. HIP-DISEASE. The term hip-disease is used for any chronic inflam-mation of the synovial membrane of the hip-joint, ofthe acetabulum, of the head, neck, or greater trochanterof the femur, or of the soft parts immediately sur-rounding these, which, if allowed to progress withouttreatment, would ultimately present the symptoms of atuberculous arthritis. —a. ;:!: i Fig. 79.—From a case of severe coxitis in a boy six years old. Primary tuber-culous infection in the head of
Lectures on orthopedic surgery . iliac -Apparatus for sacro-A leather slingmay be stretched between thebars from waist to hips. HIP-DISEASE. The term hip-disease is used for any chronic inflam-mation of the synovial membrane of the hip-joint, ofthe acetabulum, of the head, neck, or greater trochanterof the femur, or of the soft parts immediately sur-rounding these, which, if allowed to progress withouttreatment, would ultimately present the symptoms of atuberculous arthritis. —a. ;:!: i Fig. 79.—From a case of severe coxitis in a boy six years old. Primary tuber-culous infection in the head of the femur, (a) Cheesy spot; \hh) infectionof surrounding medulla; (c) extension into the shaft; {d) compression-groove ?where the head of the femur rested on the acetabulum. (Cut takenfrom Krause.) The synonyms in common use are hip-joint disease,tuberculous arthritis of the hip, morbus coxae, andcoxalgia. The causes of hip-disease are tuberculosis, usuallyacquired, but occasionally inherited, inherited syphilis, 121 injury from falls, blows, and probably from jumpingand from sprains, the infectious diseases of childhood,and the various causes that tend to chronic inflamma-tion in and about bones and joints. But whatever thecause, it ultimately presents the symptoms characteristicof a tuberculous arthritis, and for all practical purjDOsesmay be regarded as such. The precise location of the pathologic lesion, as a rule,•can not be determined. From our knowledge of l
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