A system of surgery : pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative . ents of the articulation. Another cause whichdoubtless contributes to their detachment is the atrophy which their vessels ex-perience after their development has reached the osseous, or cartilago-osseouspoint. Their primitive connection is usually effected through the medium of ashort, narrow pedicle. The size and shape of these bodies are well represented in fig. 480, from adrawing of several in a collection of thirty-eight, for which I am indebted to T. Berry, of Kentucky, who removed them, without any untow


A system of surgery : pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative . ents of the articulation. Another cause whichdoubtless contributes to their detachment is the atrophy which their vessels ex-perience after their development has reached the osseous, or cartilago-osseouspoint. Their primitive connection is usually effected through the medium of ashort, narrow pedicle. The size and shape of these bodies are well represented in fig. 480, from adrawing of several in a collection of thirty-eight, for which I am indebted to T. Berry, of Kentucky, who removed them, without any untoward occur-rence, from the left knee of a colored man upwards of thirty-five years of age. CHAP. IX. MOVABLE BODIES WITHIN THE JOINTS. 999 When quite young, he received a slight injury upon the joint, which, though notpainful, was soon followed by considerable enlargement. Two years prior to tiieoperation performed for his relief, he perceived a small, round, movable tumor,immediately above the external condyle, which was followed in about twelve months Fig. 480. Fig.


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