A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Subeoracoid dislocation. Subclavicular dislocation. accident, as in dislocation downward, the long head of the biceps is some-times broken; the circumflex nerve may be contused or ruptured, andthe capsule is generally torn very extensively. [Mr. Flower2 affirms, as a result of the examination of numerous specimensand reports of dissections, that the long tendon of the biceps is rarely, if ever,injured in this dislocation.] Symptoms.—If the dislocation is subclavicular (Fig! 376), a depres-sion exists under the outer end of the acromion proce
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Subeoracoid dislocation. Subclavicular dislocation. accident, as in dislocation downward, the long head of the biceps is some-times broken; the circumflex nerve may be contused or ruptured, andthe capsule is generally torn very extensively. [Mr. Flower2 affirms, as a result of the examination of numerous specimensand reports of dissections, that the long tendon of the biceps is rarely, if ever,injured in this dislocation.] Symptoms.—If the dislocation is subclavicular (Fig! 376), a depres-sion exists under the outer end of the acromion process, extending alsounderneath its posterior margin; the elbow hangs away from the body,and a little backward; the axis of the limb is much changed, beingthrown inward in the direction of the middle of the clavicle, the wholebody inclining moderately to the same side; there is also more or lessinability to move the arm, especially in a direction forward or outward ;a fulness is seen underneath the clavicle, and to the sternal side of thecoracoid pr
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