. Journal of radiology . ratively indicated. D——, six years of age, while playing with his toys, felland injured his knee. He was supposed to have struck thepatella against a small metal steamboat. The family phy-sician treated the case for a day or two, and becoming sus-picious of the presence of a foreign body, advised the par-ents to seek surgical counsel. Upon examination I foundlinear incised wound about V± inch in length at about themiddle of the right patella, parallel with the axis of thelimb. There was slight infection and moderate was negative, a probe revealed the
. Journal of radiology . ratively indicated. D——, six years of age, while playing with his toys, felland injured his knee. He was supposed to have struck thepatella against a small metal steamboat. The family phy-sician treated the case for a day or two, and becoming sus-picious of the presence of a foreign body, advised the par-ents to seek surgical counsel. Upon examination I foundlinear incised wound about V± inch in length at about themiddle of the right patella, parallel with the axis of thelimb. There was slight infection and moderate was negative, a probe revealed the presence of aforeign body. The .r-ray showed the foreign body beauti-fully, as evidenced by plates 1, 2. On removal the bodyproved to be a painted circular piece of tin which was partof the little steamboat on which the child was supposed tohave fallen. Fig. 3. The knee joint was uninjured andhealing was prompt and satisfactory, with no subsequentdisturbance of function of the knee. 288 KROEIGN BODY — LYDSTON 289. i
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