. Minor and operative surgery, including bandaging . ough its joints, when it is known as an amputationin the contiguity or a disarticulation. Methods of Amputating. Amputations may be performed by the circular, modi-fied circular or ovalj elliptical, and transfixion method by rectangular flaps is also employed. Circular Method.—In performing an amputation by this method the incision of the skin is made at a distancebelow the point where the bone is to be divided. Anassistant grasps the limb and draws the skin evenly andfirmly toward the root of the part, and the surgeon passest
. Minor and operative surgery, including bandaging . ough its joints, when it is known as an amputationin the contiguity or a disarticulation. Methods of Amputating. Amputations may be performed by the circular, modi-fied circular or ovalj elliptical, and transfixion method by rectangular flaps is also employed. Circular Method.—In performing an amputation by this method the incision of the skin is made at a distancebelow the point where the bone is to be divided. Anassistant grasps the limb and draws the skin evenly andfirmly toward the root of the part, and the surgeon passesthe heel of the knife well into the tissues and makes a cir-cular sweep around the limb, completing the division ofthe skin and cellular tissue with one motion of the knife(Fig. 373). The second incision in an amputation by the circularmethod consist-, after retraction of the skin, in making acircular cut through all of the tissues down to the bone(Fig. 374). The third step in an amputation by this method consists, 31 481 482 Amputation by circular method. (Druitt.) after retracting the skin and muscles and holding themback by a retractor, in the division of the bone with a saw. Fig. 374.
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