A hand-book of surgery: with fifty illustrations . If the knife is held so that the edge isFig. 116 SURGERY. directed slightly toward the shoulder, the end of the bone will befound in a conical cavity, and can be well covered by the musclesand skin. The flap operation is sometimes performed. The arm being trans-fixed, the anterior flap is made first; the vessels are divided whenthe posterior flap is cut. Amputation at the elbow is performed by making a single flapfrom the muscles and skin in front of the joint. The head of the radius is disarticulated first:let the olecranon remain. the u
A hand-book of surgery: with fifty illustrations . If the knife is held so that the edge isFig. 116 SURGERY. directed slightly toward the shoulder, the end of the bone will befound in a conical cavity, and can be well covered by the musclesand skin. The flap operation is sometimes performed. The arm being trans-fixed, the anterior flap is made first; the vessels are divided whenthe posterior flap is cut. Amputation at the elbow is performed by making a single flapfrom the muscles and skin in front of the joint. The head of the radius is disarticulated first:let the olecranon remain. the ulna is then to be sawed, so as to AMPUTATION OF THE FOREARM. The tourniquet is applied to the brachial artery as in other opera-tions upon this extremity. Two flaps are formed, one on the dorsal, the other on the palmar aspect. These are best Eig. 44. and
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