The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . if any considerable portion beremoved from either bone alone, there is aptto be mai-ked deformity with deflection ofthe hand toward the affected side. Even incases of myeloid tumor of the bones, whichare usually considered to require amputation,success, as has already been mentioned, hasfollowed excision in the hands of ^Ir. Lucasand Mr. ISIorris. The following table, com-piled from the statistics furnislied by DrsOtis and Huntington,^ shows that the mortality of the operation in militarv
The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . if any considerable portion beremoved from either bone alone, there is aptto be mai-ked deformity with deflection ofthe hand toward the affected side. Even incases of myeloid tumor of the bones, whichare usually considered to require amputation,success, as has already been mentioned, hasfollowed excision in the hands of ^Ir. Lucasand Mr. ISIorris. The following table, com-piled from the statistics furnislied by DrsOtis and Huntington,^ shows that the mortality of the operation in militarv jiractice isvery small—considerably less than that which attends amputation of the fore-arm ; so that in favorable cases, and particularly when one bone only isinvolved, and when the laceration of the soft parts is not extensive, the opera-tion may be properly resorted to. Ileyfelder tabulates 39 cases, derived mainlyfrom the records of civil life, without a single death, and with 3-4 more orless perfect successes as regards the restoration of function. 1 Op. cit., Third Surgical Volume, page M iiii^ Result of partial excision of the radius (Froma patient in the Episcopal Hospital.) EXCISION OF TUE RADIUS AND ULNA. 487 Table Showing Results of Excisions in Shafts of Radius and Ulna for Gunshot Injury. Period of operation. Total. Recovered. Died. Uiideter-mined. Mortalityper cent. Primary Intermediate Secondary Unknown 665 149 40 132 589 120 36 111 71 29 4 5 516 Aggregates 986 856 109 21 Excision of the Wrist-joint.—Judging from my own experience, I shouldsay tliiit wrist-joint excision was an operation the indications for wiiich wereseldom met with ; at least, I have never seen a case in my own practice inwhich I have felt it right to resort to this operation, those cases, whether ofinjury or of disease of the wrist, which have been bad enough to require anyoperation, having been so bad as to make me think amputation a saferremedy. The fact is,
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