A system of surgery . Frac- Fig. 305. Fig. 306. Fig. 305.—A Patella repaired after a starred ture which broke it into four pieces ; all haveunited by bone after slight displacement, but unionis weak everywhere, and at one spot, absent (Uni-versity College Museum, No. 290.) Fig. 306.—A Patella from the outer edge of which aFragment has been broken by a longitudinal uniou has occurred. (University CollegeMuseum, No. 291.) Hodgen, allowing the foot to drop. Treves speaks highly of thispractice, but he uses the long splint after the tenotomy with heavyextension from it—sometimes as much
A system of surgery . Frac- Fig. 305. Fig. 306. Fig. 305.—A Patella repaired after a starred ture which broke it into four pieces ; all haveunited by bone after slight displacement, but unionis weak everywhere, and at one spot, absent (Uni-versity College Museum, No. 290.) Fig. 306.—A Patella from the outer edge of which aFragment has been broken by a longitudinal uniou has occurred. (University CollegeMuseum, No. 291.) Hodgen, allowing the foot to drop. Treves speaks highly of thispractice, but he uses the long splint after the tenotomy with heavyextension from it—sometimes as much as 40 lbs. Fractures of the condyles and other fractures within the knee are best treated with aThomass knee-splint. Fracture of the patella. — Fractures ofthe patella form 1-4 percent, of all are very rare undertwenty, commonest up tofifty, but occur even inold age. They are farmore frequent in menthan in women (13 to 1).These fractures may bedue to direct violence,when the bone may becomminut
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