. Practical electro-therapeutics and X-ray therapy : with chapters on phototherapy, X-ray in eye surgery, X-ray in dentistry, and medico-legal aspect of the X-ray . e was easily reduced with good result. Had the arm been left inextreme supination, the deformity and lost function in the armwould have been great. After the reduction and a piaster of parisdressing had been applied, a second x-ray examination showed thebones in splendid apposition. In skiagraphing injuries of this kind an 8x10 plate should beused, and two exposures, one at right angles to the other, shouldbe made. This will reveal
. Practical electro-therapeutics and X-ray therapy : with chapters on phototherapy, X-ray in eye surgery, X-ray in dentistry, and medico-legal aspect of the X-ray . e was easily reduced with good result. Had the arm been left inextreme supination, the deformity and lost function in the armwould have been great. After the reduction and a piaster of parisdressing had been applied, a second x-ray examination showed thebones in splendid apposition. In skiagraphing injuries of this kind an 8x10 plate should beused, and two exposures, one at right angles to the other, shouldbe made. This will reveal the amount of displacement in either X-RAY IN FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS 317 direction. One exposure is not enough, as the fragments may be insuch a position that they appear in good apposition when thereis a displacement parallel with the rays of more than y2 inch, orthe full thickness of the bone. A second skiagraph, as stated, willprevent such a mistake. Hardly a day passes that the author doesnot see one or more cases of neglected bone injuries that might havehad a different ending had they been properly skiagraphed at atime when reduction was Fig. 146.—Wrong position of fractured forearm. Fig. 147 (1, 2, 3) pictures a case that was interesting in the ex-treme. The radial fracture shows no displacement, but the dis-placement in the ulna was great. This case had been treated someweeks before the skiagraphs were made. The arm had been exam-ined with the fluoroscope when it was in the condition seen in 1and pronounced all right. This case was referred to the author byan excellent surgeon for a skiagraph. The patient was placed un-der an anesthetic, and every effort was made to reduce the dis-placement in the ulna. It was believed that the bones were inperfect apposition, a heavy plaster of paris dressing was applied, 318 PRACTICAL ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS AND X-RAY THERAPY
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