A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . the trochanter. This deposit is no less remarkable for its abundance than for itsirregularity, long spines of bone often rising up toward the pelvis andforming a kind of nobby or spiculated crown, within which the acetab-ular fragment reposes. In a few instances these osteophytes havereached even to the bones of the pelvis, and formed powerful abut-ments, which seemed to prevent any farther displacement of the limbin this direction, and by some writers they have been supposed thusto fulfil a positive design. A sufficient explanation of their
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . the trochanter. This deposit is no less remarkable for its abundance than for itsirregularity, long spines of bone often rising up toward the pelvis andforming a kind of nobby or spiculated crown, within which the acetab-ular fragment reposes. In a few instances these osteophytes havereached even to the bones of the pelvis, and formed powerful abut-ments, which seemed to prevent any farther displacement of the limbin this direction, and by some writers they have been supposed thusto fulfil a positive design. A sufficient explanation of their existence,however, we think, can be found in the fact that they proceed entirelyfrom the trochanteric fragments, whose extensive comminution andgreat vascularity would naturally lead to such results. The same, butin a less degree, has already been noticed as occurring in impacted NECK, WITHOUT THE CAPSULE. 399 fractures at the anatomical neck of the humerus, where certainly suchbony abutments could not serve any useful purpose. Fig. 142. Fig.
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