A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . y in thickness as it has lost inlength. To this observation, however, there will be found many excep-tions. Sometimes the trochanteric fragment forms an open, shallowsocket, into which the acetabular fragment is received ; or its extremitymay be irregularly convex and concave, to correspond with an exactlyopposite condition of the acetabular fragment. (Fig- 206.) Ordinarily the two fragments move upon each other, without the inter-vention of any substance; but often they become united, more or lesscompletely, by fibrous bands (Fig. 207), whi
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . y in thickness as it has lost inlength. To this observation, however, there will be found many excep-tions. Sometimes the trochanteric fragment forms an open, shallowsocket, into which the acetabular fragment is received ; or its extremitymay be irregularly convex and concave, to correspond with an exactlyopposite condition of the acetabular fragment. (Fig- 206.) Ordinarily the two fragments move upon each other, without the inter-vention of any substance; but often they become united, more or lesscompletely, by fibrous bands (Fig. 207), which bands may be short orlong, according to the amount of motion which has been maintainedbetween the fragments while they are forming, or to the degree of separa-tion which exists. The capsular ligaments are usually considerably NECK OF THE FEMUR. 367 thickened, and elongated in certain directions, and not unfrequently pene-trated by spicula of bone. They are also found sometimes attached byfirm bands to the acetabular fragment. Fig. 206. Fig.
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