The rules of aseptic and antiseptic surgery; a practical treatise for the use of students and the general practitioner . Fig. 3T.—Axillary wound, united, after of tumor. 54 RULES OF ASEPTIC AND ANTISEPTIC SURGERY. first exposing these vessels above and below the tumor, so as to have full con-trol of them during the subsequent steps of the operation. This precautionoffers great security against injury of those vessels, and at the same time reduces to a minimumthe otherwise formida-ble dangers of such ac-cidental injury, shouldit occur. If it becomeevident that the tu-mor has involv
The rules of aseptic and antiseptic surgery; a practical treatise for the use of students and the general practitioner . Fig. 3T.—Axillary wound, united, after of tumor. 54 RULES OF ASEPTIC AND ANTISEPTIC SURGERY. first exposing these vessels above and below the tumor, so as to have full con-trol of them during the subsequent steps of the operation. This precautionoffers great security against injury of those vessels, and at the same time reduces to a minimumthe otherwise formida-ble dangers of such ac-cidental injury, shouldit occur. If it becomeevident that the tu-mor has involved thewalls of the adjacentlarge vessels, a ligatureabove, another belowthe growth, will per-mit of a safe and com-plete exsection in onemass of the tumor andthe diseased parts ofthe Fig. —Flap incision for removal of tumor of neck,drained and sutured. Wound Note.—It is the common tendency of young surgeons to carry too far the dissection ofa vessel adhering to a tumor. This is actuated by the desire of preserving the integrity of the vessel in question, and by the natural disinclinationof complicating the operation by double ligature,which again involves extra dissection. The con-sequence of thistendency may betwofold : eitherportions of thetumor adheringto the vessel wallare left behind tocause speedy re-lai)se, or the veinis cut or torn.
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