A hand-book of surgery: with fifty illustrations . AMPUTATION OF THE ARM. 115 in Fig. 42. The external flap should be made first, out of the del-toid, and then the head of the bone disarticulated. The internalflap is smaller, and made last^ in order that the vessel may be se-cured immediately upon the limb being some instances itmay be necessary to re-move the whole of thescapula, and one half ofthe clavicle. The ex-tent and character ofthe injury must oftendetermine the shape ofthe flaps. AMPUTATION OF THEARM. The circular opera-tion is most frequentlyperformed. The arteryis compre
A hand-book of surgery: with fifty illustrations . AMPUTATION OF THE ARM. 115 in Fig. 42. The external flap should be made first, out of the del-toid, and then the head of the bone disarticulated. The internalflap is smaller, and made last^ in order that the vessel may be se-cured immediately upon the limb being some instances itmay be necessary to re-move the whole of thescapula, and one half ofthe clavicle. The ex-tent and character ofthe injury must oftendetermine the shape ofthe flaps. AMPUTATION OF THEARM. The circular opera-tion is most frequentlyperformed. The arteryis compressed by a tour-niquet or the fingers,and the skin drawn firm-ly back. One circularincision will divide theskin and fascia; anotherwill divide the muscles. Fig. If the knife is held so that the edge isFig. 43.
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