On lengthening of the limb as a result of knee-joint disease / by W.W. Wagstaffe.

  • Wagstaffe, W. W. (William Warwick), 1843-1910.
Date:
1880
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Credit: On lengthening of the limb as a result of knee-joint disease / by W.W. Wagstaffe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reprinted from ‘ St. Thomas's Hospital Reports,' Vol X, 1880.] ON LENGTHENING OF THE LIMB AS A RESULT OF KNEE-JOINT DISEASE. By W. W. WAGSTAFFE, B.A., F.B.C.S., SENIOR ASSISTANT SURGEON TO THE HOSPITAL. is It has long been noticed that lengthening of a limb may follow disease, and cases of so-called hypertrophy have been recorded as resulting from disease somewhere in the limb itself, but I do not know of any careful observations upon any series of cases. Individual cases have been reported, and it was owing to such a case being brought before the Patholo- gical Society by Mr. Sydney Jones in 18751 that I was led to inquire into the subject more carefully, and examine a class of cases likely to throw some light upon the prevalence of this condition. The result of a few observations at that time showed me that some lengthening of the limb was of rather common occurrence after disease of the knee-joint, but the observations were too few to be of much value, and the expres- sion of opinion by surgeons of eminence and experience was so opposed to these results that only further inquiry could prove how far my first observations were exceptional or other- wise. The following cases have been examined from time to time as opportunity offered, and may prove of interest in more ways than one, for they seem to show that in a certain class of cases of joint disease a careful measurement of the respective parts of a limb may help to determine the extent and locality