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 . Deformity in fracture of lower end of radius. Diagrammatic. (Levis.) tachments are occasional associated lesions; but, as a rule, fracture ofthe base of the radius is uncomplicated except by comminution. In young persons epiphyseal separation, with a causation and de- Fig. Fracture of lower end of radius with anterior displacement. (Museum of New York Hospital.) formity similar to that which pertains to fracture, may occur


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 . Deformity in fracture of lower end of radius. Diagrammatic. (Levis.) tachments are occasional associated lesions; but, as a rule, fracture ofthe base of the radius is uncomplicated except by comminution. In young persons epiphyseal separation, with a causation and de- Fig. Fracture of lower end of radius with anterior displacement. (Museum of New York Hospital.) formity similar to that which pertains to fracture, may occur. Thetreatment of the two injuries is identical. The fracture just described is the usual one that occurs at the lower 4-±2 FRACTURES. extremity of the radius; though in rare eases irregular fracture lineschipping off the posterior lip of the articular surface or splitting offthe radial or ulnar side of the base by lines more or less vertical run-ning into the joint have been seen. Displacement forward of thelower fragment, that is, displacement toward the palmar surface occurs,though comparatively Fig. 219.


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