. Röntgen ray diagnosis and therapy . those patients who follow a light occupation may not beincapacitated and can carry their burden with the aid of a knee-cap, working men are deprived of their means of making a livingby not possessing the use of their limb. This shows how impor-tant it is, when the question of an operation turns up, to have anexact anatomic representation of the area involved—in otherwords, a good skiagraph. PELVIS AND LOWER EXTREMITY 157 Whether an indentated plaster-of-Paris dressing will in casesof little or no diastasis suffice to bold the fragments together,w
. Röntgen ray diagnosis and therapy . those patients who follow a light occupation may not beincapacitated and can carry their burden with the aid of a knee-cap, working men are deprived of their means of making a livingby not possessing the use of their limb. This shows how impor-tant it is, when the question of an operation turns up, to have anexact anatomic representation of the area involved—in otherwords, a good skiagraph. PELVIS AND LOWER EXTREMITY 157 Whether an indentated plaster-of-Paris dressing will in casesof little or no diastasis suffice to bold the fragments together,will best be determined on the basis of a skiagraph. And, fur-thermore, whether this mode of immobilization was successful inkeeping the fragments in apposition will be ascertained by skia-graphy examination mode through the plaster-of-Paris dressingthereafter. This indentated dressing consists in applying theplaster bandages around the surgeons fingers, while the displacedfragment is tightly grasped and pushed down by an Pig. 107.—Transverse Fracture of the Patella. Thus a wall is formed around the digital impressions, which, afterbecoming dry, holds the reduced fragments in place. Whenever apposition by this bloodless method is tried in vain,wiring should be performed. This is done by introducing a long 158 THE BONTGEN EAYS
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