A manual of military surgery, for the use of surgeons in the Confederate States Army; with explanatory plates of all useful operations . large posterior flap, asin fig. 1; abc, anterior incision for disarticulation at knee-joint, asseen in fig. 4. Fig. 3.—Anatomy of knee-joint, a, inferior extremity of femur ; b,head of tibia; c, patella enveloped in the anterior ligament or tendonof the quadruceps extensor muscle, called ligamentum patellae ; d,crucial ligaments; e, popliteal artery, lying immediately upon andbehind the joint. Fig. 4.—Amputation at knee-joint by posterior flap. The operationc
A manual of military surgery, for the use of surgeons in the Confederate States Army; with explanatory plates of all useful operations . large posterior flap, asin fig. 1; abc, anterior incision for disarticulation at knee-joint, asseen in fig. 4. Fig. 3.—Anatomy of knee-joint, a, inferior extremity of femur ; b,head of tibia; c, patella enveloped in the anterior ligament or tendonof the quadruceps extensor muscle, called ligamentum patellae ; d,crucial ligaments; e, popliteal artery, lying immediately upon andbehind the joint. Fig. 4.—Amputation at knee-joint by posterior flap. The operationcommenced by a circular incision into the joint just below the patella,which extends through half the circumference of the knee, abc, formand extent of flap; p, patella; /, femur; d t g, line of incisions inperforming the posterior flap amputation of the leg in upper third orseat of election. Fig. 5.—Amputation at kneo-joint by anterior flap, a b c, line ofanterior flap: t, anterior surface of tibia exposed ; p, patella; f, femur;d, anterior flap turned up. The knife is passing through the jointbetween the heads of the MELd F ° 3
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