A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Comminuted fracture of theglenoid Fracture-of the neck of the scapula;according to Sir Astley Cooper. behind the root of the coracoid process, surgical neck, then its exist-ence is certain ; yet the fracture is not common. Duverney has reported one example, the existence of which he established bya dissection. The coracoid process was broken at the same time, but the frac-ture through the surgical neck was distinct from this ; and Sir Astley has recordedthree examples in which the diagnosis was very clearly made out, yet not actuall
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Comminuted fracture of theglenoid Fracture-of the neck of the scapula;according to Sir Astley Cooper. behind the root of the coracoid process, surgical neck, then its exist-ence is certain ; yet the fracture is not common. Duverney has reported one example, the existence of which he established bya dissection. The coracoid process was broken at the same time, but the frac-ture through the surgical neck was distinct from this ; and Sir Astley has recordedthree examples in which the diagnosis was very clearly made out, yet not actuallyproved by an autopsy. There is one specimen in the museum of Guys Hospital; another, in whichrepair has taken place, in the museum of the Royal College of Per- 1 Holmess Surgery, vol. ii. p. 776, Amer. ed. 1S70. FRACTURES OF THE ACROMION PROCESS. 199 haps some of the cases, diagnosticated during the life of the patient as fracturesof the neck of the scapula, were fractures of the lower or anterior lip of the glenoidcavity; but I have never found such a specimen in any collection
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