. New elements of operative surgery . Fig. 3.« Description of the excised bones.—Theinferior two-thirds of the patella had beenremoved by an obUque cut from abovedownwards and from before backwards,and was found consoHdated with the outercondyle by boney growth without anytrace of the line of junction. It was ad-herent to the inner condyle by condensedcellular tissue. Both condyles were buriedinto and consolidated with the articularsurface of the tibia. The cut surface of the condyles, forthe most part, presented a compact ebur-nated texture with only slight remains ofcellular tissue intersper
. New elements of operative surgery . Fig. 3.« Description of the excised bones.—Theinferior two-thirds of the patella had beenremoved by an obUque cut from abovedownwards and from before backwards,and was found consoHdated with the outercondyle by boney growth without anytrace of the line of junction. It was ad-herent to the inner condyle by condensedcellular tissue. Both condyles were buriedinto and consolidated with the articularsurface of the tibia. The cut surface of the condyles, forthe most part, presented a compact ebur-nated texture with only slight remains ofcellular tissue interspersed. The spacebetween the patella and tibia and behindthe ligamentum patella? was filled withcondensed adipose and fibrous vestiges remained of cartilage or synovial cut surface of the tibia presented its normal celhtlar texture,except a single large cell capable of holding a filbert near the outeredge of the bone and havhig for its upper wall the thin compactshell of the articular surface. The section of th
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