Modern surgery, general and operative . acture plus the complication of a joint injury,arterial or venous damage, or injury to the nerves or soft parts. When a frac-tured rib injures the lung or when a broken vertebra damages the cord a com-plicated fracture exists. The term is unfortunate, as it conveys no definitemeaning, and its use is no more justifiable than it would be to speak of com-plicated pneumonia or complicated typhoid, for the complication shouldbe named in any case. It must be remembered that damage to the soft partsnot sufficiently severe to produce a wound reaching from the su
Modern surgery, general and operative . acture plus the complication of a joint injury,arterial or venous damage, or injury to the nerves or soft parts. When a frac-tured rib injures the lung or when a broken vertebra damages the cord a com-plicated fracture exists. The term is unfortunate, as it conveys no definitemeaning, and its use is no more justifiable than it would be to speak of com-plicated pneumonia or complicated typhoid, for the complication shouldbe named in any case. It must be remembered that damage to the soft partsnot sufficiently severe to produce a wound reaching from the surface to theseat of fracture does not make the case a compound fracture, but rather com-plicates a simple fracture. Remember also that even superficial areas of tissuedestruction must be treated antiseptically, otherwise absorption of pyogenicbacteria and their deposition at the seat of injury may cause diffuse osteo-myelitis. Complete fracture is that which extends through the whole thickness ofa bone or entirely across it (Fig. 261)..
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