Medical and surgical therapy . THE ULNA (AugUSt 1914), one of the most pronounced types of the accoucheurshand deformity. The hand is, as it were, folded longitudinally,the thenar and hypothenar eminences enter into contact, thecontracture of the addixctor is very marked, the fingers overrideone another, and have the bill-headed cane appearance. Thehypotonus of the flexors of the fingers is very pronounced andallows subluxation of the phalanges {v. Fig. 9, p. 555). Thereare vaso-motor and thermal disorders, and a very definite atrophyof all the tissues of the fingers (December 1915). D. Same p
Medical and surgical therapy . THE ULNA (AugUSt 1914), one of the most pronounced types of the accoucheurshand deformity. The hand is, as it were, folded longitudinally,the thenar and hypothenar eminences enter into contact, thecontracture of the addixctor is very marked, the fingers overrideone another, and have the bill-headed cane appearance. Thehypotonus of the flexors of the fingers is very pronounced andallows subluxation of the phalanges {v. Fig. 9, p. 555). Thereare vaso-motor and thermal disorders, and a very definite atrophyof all the tissues of the fingers (December 1915). D. Same patient as A (dorsal surface of affected hand). E. Contracture of the hand following a shell wound WITH FRACTURE OF THE BONES OF THE FOREARM (November 1914). The loss of power is not complete (March 1916), the patient canseparate his fingers, but as soon as he makes no further effort tokeep them apart, they assume slowly and progressively their originalposition. All the movements of the hand are easily carried out. 526 PLATE V.
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