Albany medical annals . the Bone Plate. Certain types of fractures, at the present time, call for the useof the open method of treatment. Since the introduction andpopularization of Lanes method we are hardly justified inaccepting results that formerly were considered of the shaft of the femur with a small degree ofshortening and fair functional result, can no longer be consideredsatisfactory from the standpoint of a surgeon who would con-sider himself as abreast of the times as an operator in this orfor that matter in any other field of surgical endeavor. Thatwhich hold
Albany medical annals . the Bone Plate. Certain types of fractures, at the present time, call for the useof the open method of treatment. Since the introduction andpopularization of Lanes method we are hardly justified inaccepting results that formerly were considered of the shaft of the femur with a small degree ofshortening and fair functional result, can no longer be consideredsatisfactory from the standpoint of a surgeon who would con-sider himself as abreast of the times as an operator in this orfor that matter in any other field of surgical endeavor. Thatwhich holds true of the femur naturally can be applied to otherbones as well, so that we may apply like conditions to the armas well as to the leg. As a general proposition, the surgeon ofthe present era, who has to deal with shortening of any of thelong bones that cannot be successfully reduced by means of the To Illustrate Dr. Bendells Article on Factors of Safety in the Treatmentof Fractures. Albany Medical Annals. March, 1914. FRACTURE OK SHAFT OF FEMUR. APPOSITION OF FRAGMENTS FOLLOWINCx APPLI-CATION OF PLATE AND SCREWS. SLIGHT BUCKLING OF PLATE DUE TOMUSCULAR TENSION EXERTED ALONG LINE OF FRACTURE. To Illustrate Dr. BendelPs Article on Factors of Safety in the Treatmentof Fractures. Alhcniy Medical Annals. March, 1914
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