A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . NfiM. Penetration of fragments in fracture at the anatomical neck. Two excellent drawings (Figs. 97 and 98) of the specimen show the distance towhich the superior fragment had penetrated the inferior, and show also com-plete union by bone. [The penetration in these cases is rather of the shaft into the cancellatedtissue of the head of the humerus.] I believe, also, that in the following example there was a fracture at or nearthe anatomical neck, with impaction, and splitting of the tubercles: A youngman fell from a height in a gymnasium, sev
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . NfiM. Penetration of fragments in fracture at the anatomical neck. Two excellent drawings (Figs. 97 and 98) of the specimen show the distance towhich the superior fragment had penetrated the inferior, and show also com-plete union by bone. [The penetration in these cases is rather of the shaft into the cancellatedtissue of the head of the humerus.] I believe, also, that in the following example there was a fracture at or nearthe anatomical neck, with impaction, and splitting of the tubercles: A youngman fell from a height in a gymnasium, severely injuring his left shoulder. Isaw him soon after the accident, and found him complaining very much of theshoulder, which was somewhat swollen and tender. He could not tell how he 1 R. Smith, Fractures in Vicinity of Joints, pp. 191-3. FRACTUKES OF THE HEAD AND ANATOMICAL NECK. 209 fell, nor could we discover any contusions by which to determine the pointwhere the blow was received. All motions of the shoulder-joint were painful;and there was a remar
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