The practice of surgery . Fig, 661 — Flint s excision—tibiacawed through; leg flexed; structures atknee above fallen into place a, Patella;h, patellar tendon; r, popliteal struc-tures; d, patellar tendon; e, skin-flapturned up; /, patellar tendon; g, tibia;/, tibia; /, tubercle of tibia (Flint, inAnnals of Surgery i. Fig, 662—Flints excision—leg hori-zontal; bursa turned down; saw in }), Retracted skin-fiap; 6, femur; c, (juad-riceps extensor; (/, turned down;(, patella; /, saw cut in head of tibia;y, retractor (Flint, in Annals of Sur-gery) I shall not describe excisions of othe
The practice of surgery . Fig, 661 — Flint s excision—tibiacawed through; leg flexed; structures atknee above fallen into place a, Patella;h, patellar tendon; r, popliteal struc-tures; d, patellar tendon; e, skin-flapturned up; /, patellar tendon; g, tibia;/, tibia; /, tubercle of tibia (Flint, inAnnals of Surgery i. Fig, 662—Flints excision—leg hori-zontal; bursa turned down; saw in }), Retracted skin-fiap; 6, femur; c, (juad-riceps extensor; (/, turned down;(, patella; /, saw cut in head of tibia;y, retractor (Flint, in Annals of Sur-gery) I shall not describe excisions of other joints, for the principles arealready indicated, and are they not all described at length in countlessvolumes of operative surgery? Coxa Vara.*—Strangely enough, the term coxa vara does not appearm surgical literature until within recent years. Billings Medical Dic-tionary^ of 1890 does not contain the words, though the condition haslong been appreciated. Bent hip is a characteristic of rickets, and onefinds it described in discussions of that disease. Bent hip may be dueto an injury also—traumatic coxa vara. Coxa, hip; vara, bent THE JOINTS 971 Coxa vara is that condition of the femur in which the outer end of theneck of the bone is forced upward so that the trochanter rides aboveNelatons line, whi
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