A treatise on orthopaedic surgery / by Royal Whitman.

  • Royal Whitman
Date:
1904
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Credit: A treatise on orthopaedic surgery / by Royal Whitman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    If the disease is limited in extent, the eroded surfaces of the adjoining vertebree may come into direct contact, but if several vertebral bodies have been destroyed the upper portion of the spine as it sinks downward is often displaced backward so that the anterior aspect of one or more of the upper segments may be Destruction of the bodies of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh dorsal ver- tebre ; partial destruction of three others. The deformity corrected showing the area (Ménard.) of the destructive process (Ménard.) apposed to the superior surface of the first body of the lower sec- tion (Fig. 3). Less often there may be forward displacement of the upper part upon the lower (Fig. 1). At all stages of the disease resistance to its progress and efforts
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