The surgical treatment of suppurative pericarditis / by John B. Roberts.
- John Bingham Roberts
- Date:
- 1897
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The surgical treatment of suppurative pericarditis / by John B. Roberts. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![Author’s Chondro-plastic Method of Pericardotomv, by a Trap-door Excision of Costal Cartilages, which avoids Injury to the Pleura and Internal Mammary Vessels. [The flap, consisting of portions of the fourth and fifth cartilages and the attached soft parts, is turned upward, exposing the left lung covered with pleura and the internal mammary vessels. The forceps is seen holding the vessels and the edge of the pleural sac outward, so as to expose the white pericardium, in which an opening, indicated in black, has been made.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22379484_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
