A manual of modern surgery : an exposition of the accepted doctrines and approved operative procedures of the present time, for the use of students and practitioners . s and fat embolismare not unusual accompaniments of the severe injuries that give rise tofractures of the leg bones. Union in uncomplicated cases of tibial fracture is firm in five or six 474 FRACTURES. weeks ; in fibular fracture in from three to four. The bridge of callusoccasionally uniting the bones after the cure is of no evil consequence,since rotation is not a function of the leg and foot, as it is in the upperextremity.
A manual of modern surgery : an exposition of the accepted doctrines and approved operative procedures of the present time, for the use of students and practitioners . s and fat embolismare not unusual accompaniments of the severe injuries that give rise tofractures of the leg bones. Union in uncomplicated cases of tibial fracture is firm in five or six 474 FRACTURES. weeks ; in fibular fracture in from three to four. The bridge of callusoccasionally uniting the bones after the cure is of no evil consequence,since rotation is not a function of the leg and foot, as it is in the upperextremity. Non-union is not so very infrequent. Comminuted andvery oblique fractures require more time for consolidation. Neuralgicand rheumatic pains, persistent oedema, rigidity of the ankle andchronic ulcers from defective restoration of circulation are not unusualsequences of fractures in the leg. Fractures of the Tibia and Fibula near the Ankle. Pathology.—These injuries are frequent and often very serious injuries. Bothbones may be broken without complication, they may be greatly shat-tered with the ankle joint involved, the fibula alone may be fractured Fig. Fig. 248.
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