A manual of operative surgery . FIG. 372.—DISARTICULATION AT THEELBOW-JOINT BY THE POSTERIORELLIPSE METHOD. FIG. 373.—DISARTICULATION AT THEELBOW-JOINT BY ANTERIOR FLAP. bones with the left hand, and then transfixes the limb trans-versely. The knife should be entered as near the joint as pos-sible, and should pass close to the anterior surfaces of the radiusand ulna. The muscles are cut obliquely, and an anterior flapis thus formed. An assistant draws up this flap, and the surgeon,keeping his knife close to the bones and almost flat, cuts upwardsuntil the anterior aspect of the joint is reache
A manual of operative surgery . FIG. 372.—DISARTICULATION AT THEELBOW-JOINT BY THE POSTERIORELLIPSE METHOD. FIG. 373.—DISARTICULATION AT THEELBOW-JOINT BY ANTERIOR FLAP. bones with the left hand, and then transfixes the limb trans-versely. The knife should be entered as near the joint as pos-sible, and should pass close to the anterior surfaces of the radiusand ulna. The muscles are cut obliquely, and an anterior flapis thus formed. An assistant draws up this flap, and the surgeon,keeping his knife close to the bones and almost flat, cuts upwardsuntil the anterior aspect of the joint is reached. Nothing now remains but to disarticulate in the manneralready described, and to divide the triceps and any tissueswhich have escaped division along the lateral and posterioraspects of the limb. 532 AMPUTATIONS [part vi A curved cicatrix on the posterior aspect of the limbresults. Hemorrhage.—-In addition to muscular branches, dividedwith the cut muscles, the radial and ulnar arteries will be foundsevered near the free
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