The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . »rocedure. A siuffle longitudinal incision is made on the outer side of the arm, wherethe bone is comparatively superficial, going through one of the muscular. Result of shoulder-joint excision. (From a patient in theUniversity Hospital.) 474 EXCISIONS AND RESECTIONS. interspaces, and takino; care not to injure tlie musculo-spiral nerve, wliioli, ifexposed, should l)e carefullj held out of the way witli u retractor. The boneliaviui^ hccn reached, the j)criosteuni is divided and seitarated
The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . »rocedure. A siuffle longitudinal incision is made on the outer side of the arm, wherethe bone is comparatively superficial, going through one of the muscular. Result of shoulder-joint excision. (From a patient in theUniversity Hospital.) 474 EXCISIONS AND RESECTIONS. interspaces, and takino; care not to injure tlie musculo-spiral nerve, wliioli, ifexposed, should l)e carefullj held out of the way witli u retractor. The boneliaviui^ hccn reached, the j)criosteuni is divided and seitarated with the han-dle of the knife or with tlie elevator, and tl»e ends of the fragments are thensuccessively turned out and cut off with the chain-saw or small resection-saw,as may be found most convenient. Two fresh bone-surfaces having been tliusobtainei], the resected ends of tlie fiagments are drilled, and a strong silverwire introduced and twisted to serve as a bone-suture. The external woinidis then closed and lightly dressed, and the arm jjlaced upon a bracketed orother convenient splint, so arranged that the dressings can be renewed with-out removing the wdiole apparatus. The wire which joins the fragmentsusually becomes loose in the course of five or
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