A system of surgery : theoretical and practical . entually bone surfacemeets bone surface. Another condition may be noticed at the borders of theencrusting cartilage, advancing pari passu with the change just described. This isan irregular swelling of the tissue prodiTcing small eminences of a pearly hyalinelook or yellowish colour. They are noticed at those parts of the surface least usedin the ordinary movements of the joint—namely, at the borders of the encrustingtissue, where it is close to the periosteal and synovial vascular supply, and onlyinterfei-e with the smoothness of play of the l
A system of surgery : theoretical and practical . entually bone surfacemeets bone surface. Another condition may be noticed at the borders of theencrusting cartilage, advancing pari passu with the change just described. This isan irregular swelling of the tissue prodiTcing small eminences of a pearly hyalinelook or yellowish colour. They are noticed at those parts of the surface least usedin the ordinary movements of the joint—namely, at the borders of the encrustingtissue, where it is close to the periosteal and synovial vascular supply, and onlyinterfei-e with the smoothness of play of the latter during its extraordinary little eminences are undoubtedly due to hyperplasia of the cartilage. And thishyperplasia is explained either by the irritation produced by the j)lay of those partsof the joint surfaces which are undeigoing degeneration against one another in Chronic Osteo-arthritis of the Knee-joint. (From a preparation in the Museum of the Middlesex Hospital.) Fig. 65.—Anterior view. Fig. QQ.—Posterior
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