A textbook of obstetrics . elphia). form, and there may be all the difficulties in labor encounteredin the true Xaegele pelvis. Luxation of the Femora.—Dislocation of the thigh-bones, ifcongenital or occurring early in childhood and not corrected,has some effect upon the size and shape of the pelvis, but usuallynot enough seriously to obstruct labor. If one thigh is dislo-cated, the weight of the body may be thrown mainly upon theother leg, and this may produce an oblique contraction of thepelvis of the kind already described. If the thigh-bone isdisplaced forward, the anterior half of the pel
A textbook of obstetrics . elphia). form, and there may be all the difficulties in labor encounteredin the true Xaegele pelvis. Luxation of the Femora.—Dislocation of the thigh-bones, ifcongenital or occurring early in childhood and not corrected,has some effect upon the size and shape of the pelvis, but usuallynot enough seriously to obstruct labor. If one thigh is dislo-cated, the weight of the body may be thrown mainly upon theother leg, and this may produce an oblique contraction of thepelvis of the kind already described. If the thigh-bone isdisplaced forward, the anterior half of the pelvis may bedriven in a little upon the pelvic canal, and the head of the thigh-bone, as in one case reported, may project over the horizontalramus of the pubis into the pelvic inlet (Fig. 346). In the con-genital luxation of both femora backward upon the iliac bonesthere is an excessive rotation forward of the sacrum, an increasedwidth of the pelvic canal, and from the drag ^\ the attached 47* THE l\ I IllOLOG Y OF Fig. 346.—Anterior dislocation of femur.
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