. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. Fracture of the coracoid process. Fracture at base of coracoid. Symptoms. The symptoms are abnormal mobility and crepitus, butare not easily recognized, especially if the soft parts be much bruisedand swollen; the depth at which the process is placed, and the thick-ness of the overlying muscles, make it difficult to grasp the processbetween the fingers or to appreciate its independent mobility. I havealso noticed localized pain on forcible voluntary adduction of the armand flexion of the forearm. The fracture in itself involves no danger to
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. Fracture of the coracoid process. Fracture at base of coracoid. Symptoms. The symptoms are abnormal mobility and crepitus, butare not easily recognized, especially if the soft parts be much bruisedand swollen; the depth at which the process is placed, and the thick-ness of the overlying muscles, make it difficult to grasp the processbetween the fingers or to appreciate its independent mobility. I havealso noticed localized pain on forcible voluntary adduction of the armand flexion of the forearm. The fracture in itself involves no danger to life, and no probabledisability, although the union is seldom bony. Of six specimens exam-ined by Gurlt bony union was found in only one; in four cases men-tioned by him of which our knowledge is only clinical, mobilitypersisted in two. This failure of union does not seem to cause anyloss of ftmction. In Hulmes case the union was firm but the frag-ment somewhat displaced downward. Treatment. The treatment must be directed to immobilizing thearm in
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