Plastic surgery; its principles and practice . hen molded bymeans of adhesive plaster, but this material has proved much lesssatisfactory than the celluloid tube. Technic.—The stump is painted with tincture of iodin. Theshaped piece of celluloid, after being soaked in mercuric chlorid, ito 1000, for a sufficient time, is sponged off with ether or alcohol. Itis then wrapped around the finger and secured with narrow adhesivestrips, thus making a tube which is slightly smaller at its free end thanat its base. When the tube is properly adjusted, it will hug closelythe edge of the wound, and will g
Plastic surgery; its principles and practice . hen molded bymeans of adhesive plaster, but this material has proved much lesssatisfactory than the celluloid tube. Technic.—The stump is painted with tincture of iodin. Theshaped piece of celluloid, after being soaked in mercuric chlorid, ito 1000, for a sufficient time, is sponged off with ether or alcohol. Itis then wrapped around the finger and secured with narrow adhesivestrips, thus making a tube which is slightly smaller at its free end thanat its base. When the tube is properly adjusted, it will hug closelythe edge of the wound, and will gradually become larger until it im-pinges on the first interphalangeal joint. The celluloid may extend SURGERY OF THE EXTREMITIES 667 as far beyond the finger tip as is needful, and in addition to its primaryfunction it also serves as a splint for the finger, and as a protection tothe wound (Figs. 793-795). In cases seen early, a blood clot is allowed to form in the clot serves as a scaffold for granulations. If the soft parts are. Pig. 794.—I. Finger stump four days after the accident, before application of the cellu-loid tube. 2. Finger ten and one-half months after the accident. The heaUng was com-plete in thirty days. The arrow indicates the injured finger. lacerated and spread apart, they are gathered together and held inplace by the tube. In cases seen after the granulations have started, every effort ismade to stimulate their s;rowth, and to train this growth alonsf the tube.
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