. Practical electro-therapeutics and X-ray therapy : with chapters on phototherapy, X-ray in eye surgery, X-ray in dentistry, and medico-legal aspect of the X-ray . ibia and fibula. Skiagraphs were made in an anteroposterior and lateral di-rection of a tibia and fibula that had been fractured several months before in a rail-road accident. The case was dismissed from the hospital in the condition shown inthe skiagraph. graphed after the permanent dressing was applied, a mistake thatis too often made. Nonunion in fractures is usually the result ofpoor apposition. Should the bones be lapping and
. Practical electro-therapeutics and X-ray therapy : with chapters on phototherapy, X-ray in eye surgery, X-ray in dentistry, and medico-legal aspect of the X-ray . ibia and fibula. Skiagraphs were made in an anteroposterior and lateral di-rection of a tibia and fibula that had been fractured several months before in a rail-road accident. The case was dismissed from the hospital in the condition shown inthe skiagraph. graphed after the permanent dressing was applied, a mistake thatis too often made. Nonunion in fractures is usually the result ofpoor apposition. Should the bones be lapping and allowed to unitewith a false union, which is later broken up in an attempt to reducethe fracture by getting better apposition, the case is likely to result X-RAY IN FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS 339 in a nonunion, and especially is this true if the patient is in a lowstate of health or advanced in years. Fig. 167 illustrates an interesting case of a long nonunion oc-curring in a young lady. Both tibia and fibula were broken near thesame level. This was a compound fracture, and was treated on theexpectant plan in the usual way for a long time, with the hope that. Fig. 166.—Fracture of tibia and fibula. nature would come to the patients aid and in some mysterious waybring the bones together. Two skiagraphs had been made previousto this. There was slight union in the fibula at this time, six weeksafter the plates had been put on, and no union in the tibia. Theupper end of the tibia was so softened from the processes of inflam-mation that it supported the screws poorly, and on this account it 340 PRACTICAL ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS AND X-RAY THERAPY was difficult to hold the fragments firmly in place. After severalmonths this patient has a leg that she can use fairly well, but it issomewhat shorter than the other.
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