. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. Fig. Figs. 396, oi)7.—Backward dislocntion of elbow, is large it remains attached to the internal hiteral ligament and is dis-placed upward and backward. The flexor muscles of the hand are sometimes quite freely torn from 686 DTSLOCATIOyS. the humerus, the brachialis anticus is sometimes lacerated or detachedfrom Jthe ulna, with or witliout the coronoid process; in extreme dis-placements this muscle may be torn across and the tendon of the bicepsmay slip around the outer side of the external condyle. In the onlycase in which I have se
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. Fig. Figs. 396, oi)7.—Backward dislocntion of elbow, is large it remains attached to the internal hiteral ligament and is dis-placed upward and backward. The flexor muscles of the hand are sometimes quite freely torn from 686 DTSLOCATIOyS. the humerus, the brachialis anticus is sometimes lacerated or detachedfrom Jthe ulna, with or witliout the coronoid process; in extreme dis-placements this muscle may be torn across and the tendon of the bicepsmay slip around the outer side of the external condyle. In the onlycase in which I have seen all these extensive lesions the end of thehumerus was stripped of all its muscles and had passed through thefascia and lay under the skin in the fold of the elbow, but the patienthad been subjected to three attempts by different surgeons to reduceunder ether, and the lacerations may have been in part due to thoseattempts. The capsule at the back of the external condyle is torn off by theedge of the head of the radius and seems frequently to maintain itsco
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